Sunday, 2 October 2011

World News Briefs -- October 2, 2011




Syria Opposition Forms Anti-Assad Transitional Council, Warns of Civil War -- Bloomberg

Syrian activists formed a council to coordinate efforts to end President Bashar al-Assad's rule and stop his deadly crackdown that has claimed more than 3,600 lives this year.

The so-called 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 Ghaliun, a political sociologist at Paris's Sorbonne University and member of the council, told reporters in Istanbul today. Assad's crackdown on dissenters threatens the country with civil war, he said.

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