Obama Calls Saudi, U.K. Leaders as Syrian Violence Continues

U.S. President Barack Obama, Saudi King Abdullah and British Prime Minister David Cameron agreed that the Syrian regime “immediately” must end the violence against its citizens even as they refrained from calling on Syrian President Bashar al-Assad to leave office.

Obama called Abdullah and Cameron separately yesterday, committing to “close consultations” about the situation in Syria, according to a White House statement. Syrian security forces have killed at least 56 anti-government protesters in the past four days, according to Ammar Qurabi of the National Organization for Human Rights in Syria.