Updated - November 16, 2021 11:02 pm IST
Published - July 21, 2012 09:37 am IST - Dubai
In this photo taken during a government-organised tour, Syrian soldiers stand next to burned cars after they regained control of the district of Midan, in the southern part of Damascus, on Friday.
Russia and China scored a significant diplomatic success on Friday after the Western powers agreed to drop their insistence on threatening Damascus with punitive measures in a United Nations Security Council resolution, if it failed to pull out heavy weapons from population centres. With the threat of economic sanctions under the U.N. charter out of the way, the Council unanimously passed a resolution, extending the tenure of the monitors.
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