Thursday, August 18, 2011

News Alert: President Obama in Concert with European Leaders Makes an Explicit Call for Syrian President Bashar Al'Assad to Leave office

After five months of waiting and wondering, European and American leaders issued a joint statement demanding that, "that for the sake of the Syrian people, the time has come for President Assad to step aside." President Obama also announced a set of new sanctions against the regime: http://www.nytimes.com/2011/08/19/world/middleeast/19diplo.html?_r=1&hp

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