DTN News - SYRIA UNREST: Arab League Ratchets Up Pressure On Syria's Assad
(NSI News Source Info) TORONTO, Canada / RABAT, Morocco - November 17, 2011: The Arab League has moved a step closer to imposing economic sanctions on Syria while army defectors took the armed struggle against President Bashar al-Assad to a new level by attacking an intelligence complex on the edge of Damascus.
Further intensifying the international pressure on Assad to end his repression of eight months of protests, France withdrew its ambassador from Syria and Foreign Minister Alain Juppe said Paris was working with the Arab League on a draft U.N. resolution.
Western countries have tightened sanctions on Syria and on Monday Jordan's King Abdullah became the first Arab head of state to urge Assad to quit.
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