Un Condemns Syria Violence

UN-Arab envoy Kofi Annan headed to Damascus on Monday in a bid to salvage his battered peace plan a day after the UN condemned the Syrian regime's use of artillery in a massacre that killed more than 100 people.

Syria on Sunday strongly denied allegations that its forces killed scores of people - including women and children - in one of the deadliest days of the country's uprising, but the UN Security Council after an emergency session condemned government forces for shelling residential areas.

The U.N.'s top human rights body on Friday sharply condemned Syria's bloody crackdown on opposition groups, and extended the mandate of a U.N. expert panel tasked with reporting on alleged abuses in the country.

The United Nation's top human rights body voted Thursday to condemn Syria for its "widespread and systematic violations" against civilians in a violent crackdown on opposition groups, as more western governments closed their embassies in Damascus over worsening security.

UN-Arab envoy Kofi Annan headed to Damascus on Monday in a bid to salvage his battered peace plan a day after the UN condemned the Syrian regime's use of artillery in a massacre that killed more than 100 people.

Syria on Sunday strongly denied allegations that its forces killed scores of people - including women and children - in one of the deadliest days of the country's uprising, but the UN Security Council after an emergency session condemned government forces for shelling residential areas.

The U.N.'s top human rights body on Friday sharply condemned Syria's bloody crackdown on opposition groups, and extended the mandate of a U.N. expert panel tasked with reporting on alleged abuses in the country.

The United Nation's top human rights body voted Thursday to condemn Syria for its "widespread and systematic violations" against civilians in a violent crackdown on opposition groups, as more western governments closed their embassies in Damascus over worsening security.