UN drafting resolution on Syria

The UN Security Council was meeting Tuesday to discuss a UN draft resolution demanding President Bashar Assad halt the violence and yield power, backed by Western and Arab diplomats. But Russia, one of Assad's strongest backers, has signaled it would veto action against Damascus.

"The Western draft Security Council resolution on Syria does not lead to a search for compromise," Russia's Deputy Foreign Minister Gennady Gatilov wrote Tuesday on Twitter. "Pushing this resolution is a path to civil war." (AP)