Syria News | News Date April 16, 2012

IHT Rendezvous: U.N. Truce Observers Arrive in Syria as Shelling Continues

BEIRUT, Lebanon - An initial team of six United Nations military observers arrived in Syria on Monday to monitor compliance with the fragile, four-day-old cease-fire, as activists reported government shelling in Homs, Hama and other areas. The monitors were to be joined by 25 more within days, the advance guard of a contingent expected to grow to 250. <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2012/04/17/world/middleeast/un-truce-observers-arrive-in-Syria-as-shelling-continues.html">Read more »</a>

U.N. monitors to begin work in Syria

The first members of a U.N. observer team will begin their work in Syria on Monday, tasked with monitoring a tenuous cease-fire that is showing signs of collapse amid growing reports of bloodshed.<div class="feedflare"> <a href="http://rss.cnn.com/~ff/rss/cnn_world?a=7XiWvtVGGzo:Z_KKy69lg1w:yIl2AUoC8zA"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/rss/cnn_world?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://rss.cnn.com/~ff/rss/cnn_world?a=7XiWvtVGGzo:Z_KKy69lg1w:7Q72WNTAKBA"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/rss/cnn_world?d=7Q72WNTAKBA" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://rss.cnn.com/~ff/rss/cnn_world?a=7XiWvtVGGzo:Z_KKy69lg1w:V_sGLiPBpWU"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/rss/cnn_world?i=7XiWvtVGGzo:Z_KKy69lg1w:V_sGLiPBpWU" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://rss.cnn.com/~ff/rss/cnn_world?a=7XiWvtVGGzo:Z_KKy69lg1w:qj6IDK7rITs"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/rss/cnn

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