U.N. observers suspend their patrols in Syria amid violence

Sunday, June 17, 2012

BEIRUT -- U.N. observers suspended their patrols in Syria on Saturday due to a recent spike in violence, the strongest sign yet that an international peace plan was unraveling despite months of diplomatic efforts to prevent the country from plunging into civil war.

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