SOFIA, Bulgaria — US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton vowed Sunday to bolster existing sanctions against the Syrian regime and seek further ones to block funding and arms shipments to Damascus.
BEIRUT — UN chief Ban Ki-moon issued a call to Syria's Bashar al-Assad to stop killing his people, warning the embattled president he was heading for a dead end.
Syrian President Bashar al-Assad denied ordering the killing of thousands of protesters and said "only a crazy person" would target his own people, in a rare US interview released Wednesday.
The Syrian National Council, a newly launched anti-regime front, has gained mass support in Syria with many people demanding it be recognised as the country's sole authority, activists said on Monday.
It is "a matter of time" before the Syrian regime headed by President Bashar al-Assad is ousted from power by a popular uprising, US Defence Secretary Leon Panetta said on Monday.
