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reinforce the international community's stumbling efforts to end 13 months of deadly conflict in Syria. The

on, this is the cease-fire in Syria. But U.N. chief Ban Ki-moon and others stand by the U

PARIS - International sanctions targeting Syria's repressive regime have depleted its foreign

leader Hassan Nasrallah, whose Syria-backed Hezbollah militia is considered a terrorist organization in

ally Syria for over a year, both world powers have consistently supported tough measures against North

though overall violence in Syria has dropped significantly since the truce took effect Thursday, the

cease-fire plan by special U.N. envoy Kofi Annan to end 13 months of violence and begin talks on Syria

to the embassies of Syria and Germany, among others. Phone calls to the Bahraini Embassy were not

BEIRUT - Syria's 4-day-old cease-fire appeared to be quickly eroding Sunday, with regime forces

opposition. Russia, Syria's most powerful ally, accused Western nations of seeking regime change. But the