US officials say Assad’s rule near end as sanctions, Arab League opposition take a toll
WASHINGTON — Syrian President Bashar Assad’s days are numbered as U.S. and European economic sanctions and Arab League opposition have undermined a regime “that’s basically a family-led mafia,” Obama administration officials said Wednesday. Jeffrey Feltman, an assistant secretary of state, told a Senate panel of the increasing intolerance worldwide for Assad’s brutal repression of the […]

