Turkey has unveiled plans to ask that NATO deploy Patriot missiles along its border with Syria. The move would effectively create a no-fly zone over the Turkey-Syria border. The move comes as Syria is seeing some of its worst violence to date, with reports of dozens, if not hundreds, of deaths over the past week. At the United Nations, Under-Secretary-General for Political Affairs Jeffrey Feltman warned Syria is headed toward self-destruction.

Jeffrey Feltman: “The current path will lead Syria to its destruction. Clearly, there is a need to shift away from the military logic that’s prevailing at the moment. The solution must be arrived through a political process, and it has to be a Syrian-led process; it can’t be imposed. It must bring real change and a clean break from the past.”