Republican senator John McCain visits Syria, meets with rebels
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Republican Senator John McCain entered Syrian territory and met with rebel forces in the country. During the visit, McCain called the US President Barack Obama to launch a military intervention against President Bashar Assad.
McCain, who lost the elections to Obama in 2008, became the highest-ranking US official to enter Syria since the bloody civil war there began more than two years ago, The Daily Beast has learned. (Yitzhak Benhorin, Washington)
