CAIRO: Arabs will end their observer mission to Syria and will ask the UN Security Council to send an international peacekeeping force to end the bloodshed there, according to a draft resolution obtained by Reuters on Sunday.
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CAIRO: An Arab League committee on Syria was set to ask Arab foreign ministers on Sunday to extend a monitoring mission in the country by one month, sources attending the committee meeting said.
Hundreds of Syrians have been killed since the (...)
CAIRO: The Arab League has urged the Syrian government to end its violence against protesters and allow League monitors in the country to work more freely, but stopped short of asking the UN to help.
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CAIRO: Arab states voted on Sunday to impose economic sanctions on Syria immediately, in response to President Bashar Al-Assad's failure to halt a violent crackdown on an eight-month uprising against his rule.
Qatar said that if Arab nations (...)
CAIRO: The Arab League has asked Syrian opposition groups to submit their vision for a transition of power ahead of a bigger conference on Syria's future, a League official and a member of the opposition said on Tuesday.
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CAIRO: The Arab League, stung into action by months of bloodshed in Syria, met opponents of President Bashar Al-Assad on Tuesday, a day after violence in his country claimed 69 more lives.
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CAIRO: Arab League chief Nabil Al-Araby said on Sunday he may visit Syria this week to voice Arab worries about violence there after Damascus sent troops and tanks to crush street protests against President Bashar Al-Assad's rule
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