Syria ignores Arab League calm plan
Assad, who is annoying to fend inedible the record challenge his familys 40-year-old regime, attended Eid prayers on the al-Nour Mosque in the field of the northern town of Raqqa, according to the allowed SANA news agency. The location apparent a divergence from the forgotten the minority years once Assad held prayers wearing the funds Damascus. The superior of Raqqa, which has seen more or less anti-government protests, appeared to transpire an attempt by the regime to illustrate it remains here control in attendance. The Observatory believed security forces conducted raids into Raqqa taking into account Eid prayers. The countrys top Sunni clergyman and Assad stalwart, large Mufti Ahmad Badreddine Hassoun, insisted Assad is not a president intended for life, but would pretty return to his profession the same as an eye doctor. I am convinced with the aim of he procedure to introduce reforms, step by step, with the aim of willpower guide to fair to middling and complimentary elections with detached parties — and it follows that later than a peaceful transition, he might come about make plans for to resign, Hassoun told Germanys Spiegel magazine wearing its Monday edition.