World powers fear a slide into all-out civil war in Syria which could inflame
a region already riven by revolts and rivalries from Bahrain and Yemen to
Iran and the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
Gulf Arab states, the United States, Europe and Turkey are leading diplomatic
efforts to force Assad to end his 11-year rule. But they have ruled out a
military intervention of the kind that helped bring down Libya’s Muammar
Gaddafi last year.
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