YEMEN: Allies rethink support for country.
The Obama administration and its Arab and European allies are reassessing their military and economic support for Yemen in a search for ways to force President Ali Abdullah Saleh’s resignation before civil war erupts. In a conversation Sunday just before Saleh refused a third peace deal negotiated by Persian Gulf states, White House counterterrorism chief John Brennan told the Yemeni president “that if he doesn’t sign, we’re going to have to consider possible other steps,” a senior administration official said.
SYRIA: EU imposes sanctions on president.
Five days after the U.S. imposed sanctions on Syria’s president, Bashar Assad, the European Union followed suit Monday, overcoming internal divisions on whether to single out the Syrian leader over the bloody crackdown against protesters. The Obama administration also claimed a quiet diplomatic victory after a frantic but largely invisible campaign to keep Syria from winning a seat on the United Nations body charged with policing international human rights.
LIBYA: NATO planes hit capital hard.
NATO warplanes were repeatedly hitting Tripoli early today in what appears to be the heaviest night of bombing of the Libyan capital since the start of the air campaign against Moammar Gadhafi’s forces.
Denver Post wire services
