UN urged to send armed peacekeepers to Syria
DAMASCUS — Syria’s opposition has urged the United Nations to send armed peacekeepers into the country after UN monitors suspended their operations because of raging violence.
The exiled Syrian National Council, the country’s main opposition group, in a statement issued overnight called on the UN Security Council to adopt a resolution under Chapter VII of the UN Charter to arm the observers.
The call came as Syrian troops reportedly laid siege to several districts of the flashpoint central city of Homs on Sunday, a day after violence cost at least 69
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