A protester wearing a mask of Syrian leader Bashar al Assad sits on the gro… Map of Syria locating Jisr al-Shughur. Western powers pressed the UN Securi… Syrian men lie wounded in hospital beds in the southeastern Turkish city of… Western powers pressed the UN Security Council to condemn Syria’s deadly crackdown on opposition protests in the face of strong opposition from Russia and China. Britain and France have drawn up a new resolution which demands that President Bashar al-Assad end the violence and lift the siege of protest cities. It also calls for an arms embargo on Syria. But there is no threat of sanctions and France’s envoy said that there was no intention to launch…
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West seeks UN vote condemning Syria