Syria Ceasefire Plans Close To Collapse -- The Telegraph
A last minute demand by Bashar al-Assad's Syrian government has been rejected by the opposition, as the prospect of a UN-brokered ceasefire looked increasingly bleak.
The truce plan, devised by UN-Arab League envoy Kofi Annan, was supposed to go into effect on Tuesday, with a withdrawal of Syrian forces from population centres, followed within 48 hours by a ceasefire by both sides in the uprising against four decades of repressive rule by the Assad family.
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