U.N. Security Council Passes Syria Cease-Fire After Hundreds Killed In Bombing Siege
Airstrikes, shells and barrels filled with TNT are being dropped on neighborhoods where civilians have no way to escape. More than 120 of those killed in the past week are children.
Updated at 3:30 pm ET
The United Nations Security Council has approved a resolution calling for a 30-day cease-fire in Syria, following one of the bloodiest weeks of aerial bombardment in the war that has devastated the country.
In the eastern suburbs of Damascus, a region called , nearly 500 people have been killed in a deadly escalation by the Syrian government that began Sunday, the Syrian Observatory
