UN's Ban Urges Support for Envoy's Syrian Peace Plan

U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon is urging the Security Council to back Special Envoy Staffan de Mistura's proposal for a new talks to end the war in Syria. Ban told the council Wednesday that he was "profoundly disappointed" that its past resolutions to stop the violence and ease the humanitarian suffering  had been ignored. "After more than four years of slaughter, the Syrian conflict is a shameful symbol of the international community's divisions and...

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