DAILY BEAST / REUTERS: Egyptian President Mohamed Mursi said he had cut all diplomatic ties with Damascus on Saturday and backed a no-fly zone over Syria, pitching the most populous Arab state more firmly against President Bashar al-Assad.
Addressing a rally called by Sunni Muslim clerics in Cairo, the Sunni Islamist head of state also warned Assad’s ally, the Iranian-backed Lebanese Shi’ite militia Hezbollah, to pull back from fighting in Syria…
The rally underscored the region’s deepening sectarian rift. A cleric who spoke before Mursi described Shi’ites as heretics, infidels, oppressors and polytheists… (more)
