U.S.: Russia sending attack helicopters to Syria

SAN FRANCISCO (MarketWatch)
Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said Russia is sending attack helicopters to Syria and is concerned the arms shipment will escalate the conflict, according to media reports Tuesday. Clinton reportedly said that the shipment "will escalate the conflict quite dramatically."
Earlier in the day, the U.N.'s head of peacekeeping operations, Herve Ladsous, told Reuters that the 15-month-old conflict in Syria between the regime of President Bashar al-Assad and opposition groups has degenerated into a civil war