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US pledges to hasten end of Assad

Mulls Syria no-fly zone withTurkey as battle rages; Arabs to meet today

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The United States and Turkey yesterday indicated they might impose no-fly zones in Syria to hasten the downfall of the regime as battles between rebels and President Bashar al-Assad's forces shook Aleppo and fighting erupted in the heart of Damascus.
US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said after meeting her Turkish counterpart Ahmet Davutoglu in Istanbul that Washington and Ankara should develop detailed operational planning on ways to assist the rebels fighting to topple Assad.
"Our intelligence services, our military have very important responsibilities and roles to play so we are going to be setting up a working group to do exactly that," she said.
Asked about options such as imposing a no-fly zone over rebel-held territory, Hillary said these were possibilities she and Davutoglu had agreed "need greater indepth analysis", while indicating that no decisions were necessarily imminent.
Nevertheless, her remarks were the closest Washington has come to suggesting direct military intervention in Syria.
No-fly zones imposed by Nato and Arab allies helped Libyan rebels overthrow Muammar Gaddafi last year. Until recently, the West had shunned the idea of repeating any libya-style action.
Across the country the renewed violence has killed at least 39 people — 20 civilians, nine soldiers and 10 rebels, the Syrian
Observatory for Human Rights said in its latest toll update.
State television said two bombs exploded in the heart of the capital, without reporting casualties.
The Britain-based monitoring group said that in Aleppo "areas of (southwest) Salaheddin district came under shelling by Syrian regime forces," who forced the rebels to stage what they termed a "tactical withdrawal" from the area on Thursday.
A rebel commander insisted his fighters were still putting up strong resistance
around Salaheddin.
Troops backed by artillery stormed Salaheddin on Wednesday in the first stage of an offensive to recapture areas of the city taken by the rebels since July 20.
In the face of the escalating violence, the US top diplomat on a visit to Turkey said the "number one goal" of Washington and Ankara was to hasten the end of President Bashar al-Assad's regime and stop the bloodshed.
Washington on Friday announced sanctions against Syrian state oil company
Sytrol for trading with Iran, in a bid to starve both Tehran and Damascus of much-needed revenue.
The US Treasury also said it was adding the Lebanese Shia militant group Hezbollah, which has close ties with Iran and Syria, to a blacklist of organisations targeted under Syria-related sanctions.
Meanwhile, Syrian and Jordanian forces clashed along the border overnight in an incident that highlighted international concerns that the civil war in Syria could ignite a wider regional conflict.
The border clash broke out after Syrian refugees tried to cross into Jordan, a Syrian opposition activist who witnessed the fighting said.
Syrian troops fired across the frontier and fighting ensued, a Jordanian said. No one was reported killed on Jordan's side.
With the unrelenting violence, the Arab states' chief diplomats will hold an emergency meeting in Saudi Arabia today to discuss the conflict and a replacement for international mediator Kofi Annan, who resigned in frustration over a failed peace deal.
World powers are expected to name veteran Algerian diplomat Lakhdar Brahimi as the new UN/Arab League envoy for Syria early next week.
French President Francois Hollande also Saturday backed "support for the Syrian opposition and the determined search for a political transition in Syria," as well as humanitarian aid.