Syria's Assad appeals to African summit for help
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Syria's increasingly isolated president appealed on Wednesday to the leaders of a five-nation economic forum meeting in South Africa to help end his country's two-year conflict.
Bashar Assad's appeal came a day after the Arab League endorsed Syria's Western-backed opposition coalition, delivering another blow to the regime in Damascus. Assad sent a letter urging the leaders of the five nation BRICS forum: Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa, to "work for an immediate cessation of violence that would guarantee the success of the political solution" in Syria. (AP)
