Arab League observers to visit Syria

A team of Arab observers headed to Syria today as neighbouring Turkey condemned President Bashar Assad for turning his country into a “bloodbath” after the regime killed more than 200 people this week alone.

Thu, 22 Dec, 2011 - 10:23

The latest deaths in the nine-month uprising drew international condemnation.

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