Syria: Russia Keeps Up Support For Assad Regime

Syria: Russia Keeps Up Support For Assad Regime: BEIRUT -- Syrian troops mounted deadly new raids against dissent Monday as President Bashar Assad's embattled regime won key support from longtime ally Russia, which said a U.N. resolution on Syria must not contain sanctions. The U.N. said Monday that the death toll has reached at least 2,600 from the government's violent crackdown on protests ov
er the past six months.