U.N. military observers departed Damascus on Monday after a four-month mission in which they became helpless spectators of Syria’s conflict, and activists said government forces launched air strikes near the capital that killed two dozen people.
Tags: government forces, military observersAmid ongoing violence in parts of Syria, the presence of UN military observers on the ground has had an overall calming effect in their areas of deployment in the Middle Eastern country, the head of the UN observer force said today.
Tags: military observers, UN observer forceSix Chinese United Nations military observers left Beijing for Syria on Monday to monitor a ceasefire, upon the UN’s request.
Tags: military observers, United Nations