Syrian Forces Kill 10 as Opposition Unites Against Assad
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Syrian forces killed at least 10 protesters demanding the ouster of President Bashar al-Assad as opposition groups set up a council to coordinate efforts to end his 11-year rule.
The Syrian National Council will include the head of Syria’s Muslim Brotherhood, an Islamic political party banned in the country, as well as Kurdish and other groups, Burhan Ghalioun, a political sociologist at Paris’s Sorbonne University and member of the council, told reporters in Istanbul yesterday. Assad’s crackdown on dissenters threatens the country with civil war, he said.