Syrian tanks and troops stormed a Damascus suburb on Thursday in what activists called one of the government's most violent campaigns near the capital, as the international deadline for a government pullback inched closer with little sign of waning hostilities.
Plans for a cease-fire, which is supposed to be fully in place by April 10, are in jeopardy, envoy Kofi Annan told the United Nations General Assembly on Thursday, shortly after the U.N. Security Council formally endorsed Mr. Annan's peace plan.
"Clearly the violence is still continuing at alarming levels daily," Mr. Annan, the U.N.-Arab League joint envoy to Syria, said via video-link from Geneva. "Military operations have not stopped."
Mr. Annan said Syria's government had written him to say that armed groups were still attacking the state, but that the government had begun withdrawing troops from Idlib, Deraa and Zabadan ahead of the deadline.
Activists and residents disputed accounts of a pullback. In the northern city of Idlib, residents said the use of heavy weapons had stopped, but that the government hadn't removed troops and continued to arrest military-aged men.
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