The Arab League approved sanctions against Syria today (November 27, 2011) in the latest bid to dissuade the Assad regime from its continuing killing of dissenters, according to the RIA Novosti (Russian) website.
Nineteen of the regional bloc's 22-member nations voted in favor of the unprecedented sanctions at a meeting in Cairo.
Damascus -- which has already been under U.S. and European Union sanctions -- denounced the move as a betrayal of Arab solidarity.
More than 3,500 Syrian protesters have been killed since the protests against Syrian President Bashar al-Assad began last March.
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