UN: Assad says Syrian 'police actions' have stopped

Syrian President Bashar al-Assad told UN Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon on Wednesday that military and 'police' operations against protesters in Syria have stopped. In a phone call with Assad on Wednesday, Ban "expressed alarm at the latest reports of continued widespread violations of human rights and excessive use of force by Syrian security forces against civilians across Syria, including in

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UN Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon has demanded that Syria stop using its army against Syrian civilians. "In a phone conversation with President Assad of Syria today, the secretary-general expressed his strong concern and that of the international community at the mounting violence and death toll in Syria over the past days," the UN press office said in a statement.It added that Ban "urged the