CAIRO — The Arab League said it will send Secretary-General Nabil El Arabi to Syria to ask President Bashar al-Assad to end the unrest in the country.
Arab League foreign ministers, meeting in Cairo, said they are “upset and worried” about events in Syria where thousands of people have been killed or injured. The envoy will travel to Syria urgently, the ministers said early Sunday in a statement that gave no date for the visit.
Syrian security forces attacked demonstrators Saturday in suburbs of the capital, Damascus, in the eastern town of Deir al-Zour, in the central city of Homs and in Nawa, said Mahmoud Merhi, head of the Arab Organization for Human Rights and Ammar Qurabi of the National Organization for Human Rights in Syria. At least 12 protesters were killed, they said.
