Syria’s ‘Bloodiest Day’ As Forces Kill More Than 200 In Homs, UN To Push Bashar al-Assad To Step Down -- National Post/Reuters
Syrian forces killed more than 200 people in an assault on the city of Homs, activists said, the bloodiest day of an 11-month uprising giving sudden urgency to a push for a U.N. resolution calling for President Bashar al-Assad to cede power.
The Arab League, Europe and the United States leaned hard on Assad’s veto-wielding ally Russia to let the Security Council pass a resolution later on Saturday backing an Arab call for Assad to transfer powers to a deputy.
Moscow said the resolution was not “hopeless,” but it needed to be adjusted to avoid “taking sides in a civil war.”
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