A team of six U.N. observers set up headquarters in Damascus on Monday, April 16, and began reaching out to the Syrian government and its opponents in a bid to start healing the country’s divides, even as growing violence jeopardized those plans, The Washington Post reported. According to a U.N. Security Council resolution passed Saturday, the monitors’ work depends on the continued observance of a cease-fire that went into effect Thursday. But numerous reports of truce violations by security forces and armed opponents of President Bashar Assad, which resulted in the deaths of 12 civilians and an unspecified number of government forces Monday, left the feasibility of the mission in doubt.