Yemen Opposition Says Plan ‘Dead’; Syria Attacks Demonstrators
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Yemen’s Joint Meetings Party, a coalition of six opposition groups, said a plan to end the country’s political crisis is dead following a visit by the chief envoy of Arab Gulf states seeking to broker a deal.
Elsewhere in the Middle East yesterday, Syrian security forces attacked street protesters for a second day. Troops entered Al Aridha, near the border with Lebanon, amid heavy gunfire, the al-Jazeera television network reported. Twelve protesters were were killed in Talkalakh, Aleppo and near Majdal Shams, according to news outlets including the al-Arabiya television network and the Syrian news agency.