International Community Divided as Mass Arrests and Increasingly Vile Syria Violence Threatens Civil War Between Dictatorship and Rebels Escalating Attacks

Deadliest day for Syria troops as monitors fan out

AFP – Rebels killed 22 troops Wednesday in the Syrian army’s deadliest day of a three-week-old ceasefire deal, even as UN observers said they were having a “calming” impact as they deploy on the ground. Fifteen troops, including two colonels, were killed in a rebel ambush at dawn in the northern province.