United Nations special envoy Kofi Annan met Tuesday with Syrian President Bashar Assad in a bid to salvage a faltering UN-brokered peace plan that has plainly failed to stop the violence continuing in Syria, The Los Angeles Times reports.
Annan arrived Monday in Damascus and called on Assad's government to take "bold steps" to help end the more than yearlong crisis, which has cost at least 9,000 lives.
His visit comes in the aftermath of the massacre of more than 100 civilians, mostly women and children, in the central township of Houla. The incident has drawn major international revulsion.
Kofi Annan meets with Syria's Assad
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