UN: Syria Blocking Monitors From Site Of Killings

The United Nations says Syrian soldiers stopped a team of U.N. monitors from entering the site of a reported mass killing in the country. The Syrian state news agency SANA called the opposition’s claims “absolutely baseless” and said that patrols had reached Mazraat al-Qubair, the site of the alleged massacre. Gen. Robert Mood, who heads the observer mission, told the Associated Press that monitors were halted at Syrian army checkpoints and, in some instances, told to turn back. The mission, he said, remains “concerned about the restriction imposed on its movement as it will impede our ability to monitor, observe and report.”