Arab leaders call on Assad to step down
Arab leaders are calling on Syrian President Bashar al-Assad to step down, promising him safe passage if he leaves the country.
Syrian President Bashar Assad said in a newspaper interview Saturday he won't step down before elections and that the United States has no right to interfere in his country's politics, raising new doubts about a US-Russian effort to get Assad and his opponents to negotiate an end to the country's civil war.