Feb 8 03:27 AM US/Eastern WASHINGTON (AP) - The U.S. appears out of answers in Syria. As violence rages, the Obama administration isn't considering invading Syria or arming its rebels to remove President Bashar Assad (bah-SHAR' AH'-sahd) from power. For now, Washington is relying primarily on what it has been doing for the past 11 months, which are sanctions targeting the Syrian regime and isolating it from the world economy. It is also borrowing from a strategy used in Libya's civil war, assembling a group of like-minded nations to coordinate an international strategy to pressure Assad into accepting an Arab-proposed plan to leave power.