UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) – The United States, Britain and European allies said on Thursday they would draft a U.N. Security Council sanctions resolution on Syria, which accused Washington of waging diplomatic war against it. Syrian people living in Jordan shout slogans against Syria’s President Bashar Al-Assad during a demonstration in front of the Syrian embassy in Amman May 22, 2011. (REUTERS/Majed Jaber/Files) The latest threat by Western powers on the 15-nation council comes after five months of an increasingly brutal Syrian government crackdown against protesters seeking an end to the 41-year authoritarian reign of President Bashar al-Assad and his late father, Hafez al-Assad. “The…
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