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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

to Syria to shore up a brittle cease-fire as escalating fighting between regime and rebel forces

hours Friday to discuss rival drafts by the U.S. and its European allies and by Russia, Syria's most

WASHINGTON - Canada has no interest in arming pro-democracy rebels in Syria if a fragile ceasefire

foreign ministers to discuss the escalating crisis in Syria.

Thursday, opposition activists said, just hours after Syria promised to observe a halt in fighting. Under a