UN chief troubled by "civil war" threat in Syria

UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon warned Monday that the search for a peaceful end to the unrest in Syria was at a "pivotal moment," his spokesman said on the sidelines of a NATO summit in Chicago.

"The Secretary General said we were at a pivotal moment in the search for a peaceful settlement to the crisis and that he remained extremely troubled about the risk of an all-out civil war," the spokesman said in a statement.

(AFP)