Russia backed Friday a first assessment by the head of the observer mission to Syria, Sudanese Gen. Mohammed Ahmed Mustafa al-Dabi, that the situation in the country was "reassuring." "Judging by the public statements made by the chief of the mission Dabi, who in the first of his visits went to the city of Homs, ... the situation seems to be reassuring," Russia's Foreign Ministry said on its website. After meeting with Mansour Saturday, Zasypkin said Moscow was working on a U.N. Security Council Resolution that would press for a lack of foreign intervention in Syria, a halt to violence...