Syrian opposition group quits Syrian National Coalition

A major Syrian anti-regime group, the Local Coordination Committees (LCC), announced Saturday it had quit the opposition in exile. In a letter to the Syrian National Coalition (SNC), the LCC denounced what it termed the SNC's transformation into "blocs linked to foreign forces." The LCC denounced what it called "non-institutional" working methods and the creation of "blocs related to factors and external forces, which was the main reason for the outbreak of internal conflict over the personal ambitions of some members of the Coalition."