Tunisia withdraws its ambassador from Syria for "consultations"

According to an official statement of the Tunisian cabinet, the ambassador recalled from Damascus "for consultations". Tunisia is the fourth Arab country that has decided to withdraw its official diplomatic representative of Syria, which already held more than five months of mass demonstrations demanding the resignation of current President Bashar al-Assad. Previously, their ambassadors from Damascus withdrew Saudi Arabia, Kuwait and Bahrain. Protests in Syria began in mid-March in Dera'a in the south, and then spread to other regions. Syrian human rights activists have reported that to date the number of anti-government protesters who have been killed in clashes with security forces and police since mid-March, around the country reached two thousand. According to official figures, with the events of the actions of "armed terrorist elements," in which the Syrian authorities have blamed for the violence in the country, killing nearly 500 soldiers and security forces.