Un Arab Envoy Kofi Annan

'Last chance' to avoid civil war in Syria: Annan

United Nations-Arab League envoy Kofi Annan says his peace plan could be the last chance to avoid civil war in Syria, where a truce has failed to end 14 months of bloodshed that monitors say has killed nearly 12,000 people. Annan told the UN Security Council yesterday that the priority in Syria was "to stop the killing," and expressed concern that ...