United Press International
| 1 year ago
Syrian regime backers must justify how they can let the bloodshed go on, U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said before meeting with counterparts Thursday. "The burden has shifted," Clinton told reporters in Brussels Wednesday before flying to...
Zee News
| 1 year ago
Assad's regime stopping women from fleeing Syria' Damascus: Syrian President Bashar al-Assad's regime is reportedly trying to prevent women and children from leaving the country. According to reports from refugees and activists, the attempt appears...
Novinite
| 1 year ago
Ban Ki-moon has called for an observer mission to be expanded to 300 members in a letter to the UN Security Council, as cited by BBC. Ban said although the ceasefire agreed by both sides following a UN Security Council resolution was incomplete, both...
Sydney Morning Herald
| 1 year ago
Story continues below At the same time, Ban said, the Syrian government and opposition have continued to express their commitment to a ceasefire and have agreed to cooperate with a UN observer mission. "I remain deeply concerned about the gravity of...
NOW Lebanon
| 1 year ago
UN chief Ban Ki-moon has called for an expanded UN ceasefire observation mission in Syria even though he says Damascus has failed to adhere to an agreed peace plan. The UN leader said Wednesday he wants 300 unarmed observers to be sent on a three-...
Jerusalem Post
| 1 year ago
Assad's regime has yet to send "a clear signal" about it's commitment to peace, UN Chief tells Security Council, says expanded UN monitoring mission would comprise initial deployment of up to 300 unarmed observers. Syria has not fully complied with...
BBC
| 1 year ago
UN's Ban Ki-moon calls for 300 Syria observers UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has said he wants the UN observer mission being sent to Syria to monitor a peace plan to be expanded to 300 members. An advance team has already gone to Syria under the...
The independent
| 1 year ago
The likelihood of a fully fledged United Nations observer mission being dispatched to Syria rapidly diminished yesterday as the regime continued to make a mockery of Kofi Annan's peace plan. Hours before an advance team of monitors was due to report...
The Courier-Mail
| 1 year ago
As UN observers were greeted by hundreds of anti-regime protesters on the streets of Damascus yesterday (today local time), Washington said their mission was not being given the necessary freedom to properly monitor a halt to hostilities. "We have a...
