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U.S. to Pressure Syria’s Assad

Will join in calls for him to resign, sources say.

The U.S. will join the growing number of countries that are calling for Syria’s embattled leader, Bashar al-Assad, to resign, sources told CNN Tuesday. The move is expected to come after U.S. officials meet with the U.N. Security Council, and the Security Council follows up Wednesday on last week’s statement condemning the Syrian government for its action against protesters. Turkey’s foreign minister, Ahmet Davutoglu, called on the Syrian government to end its bloody after the two officials held a seven-hour meeting. Davutoglu said the two discussed “concrete steps” that Syria could take to end the violence, but Davutoglu did not offer any specifics. Syria’s new agency said Assad had planned to use the talks to insist to the former ally that Syria will “not relent in its pursuit of terrorists.”