The League of Arab States suspended its observer mission to Syria on Saturday, days before the organization’s Secretary General Nabil Elaraby is scheduled to make his case  for a Security Council resolution against the Assad government at UN headquarters. While Council members Friday debated the Arab-led proposal which calls on President…

U.S. State Department spokesman Victoria Nuland fielded questions Jan. 20, over the embattled nation of Syria. In recent weeks, at least 16 people were killed by security forces in Damascus. More than 5,400 people who have died since mid-March, when Syrian President Bashar al-Assad began the crackdown on anti-government protesters,…

Russia’s reported sale of fighter jets and ammunition to the Assad government in Syria drew veiled criticism Tuesday from Western states at the UN Security Council, who urged “supplier countries” to stop selling arms to the regime in Damascus. U.S., French and British Ambassadors alluded to reports of arms sales…