The Arab League passed a resolution urging the UN and the international community to “take the deterrent and necessary measures against the culprits … that the Syrian regime bears responsibility for.” Saudi Arabia’s foreign minister said his country would back a US strike if the Syrian people did. A rights group said that 110,371 people have been killed so far in the Syrian conflict, including 3,730 mostly non-Syrian rebel fighters, and 171 Hezbollah fighters. President Assad claimed that Syria “is capable of confronting any external aggression.”
