U.N.: Syria in a state of civil war

Friday, December 2, 2011

BEIRUT -- Syria has entered a state of civil war with more than 4,000 people dead and an increasing number of soldiers defecting from the army to take up arms against President Bashar Assad's regime, the U.N.'s top human rights official said Thursday.

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