Syrian protest

Source : Agencies
DAMASCUS | 09 Apr 2011

A mass protest calling for sweeping changes in Syria's regime turned bloody Friday, with the government and protesters both claiming to have sustained heavy casualties in a restive southern city as the country's three-week uprising entered a dangerous new phase.

Human rights activists and witnesses said Syrian security forces opened fire on tens of thousands of protesters in Deraa, killing 25 and wounding hundreds.

Source : Zeina Karam | AP
BEIRUT | 05 Apr 2011

Syrian activists called Tuesday for a new wave of demonstrations to honor more than 80 people killed in a crackdown on anti-government protests that erupted nearly three weeks ago.

Also Tuesday, the state-run news agency said gunmen killed two policemen in a suburb of the capital. Police killings are extremely rare in this tightly controlled country, although the government says several policemen and other security troops have been killed since the protests began March 18.

Source : Hussein Malla and Zeina Karam | AP
LATAKIA : Syria | 28 Mar 2011

Syria’s army was out in force Sunday in a port city scarred by unrest aimed at symbols of the government, which is struggling to put down an unprecedented nationwide outbreak of protest and dissent.

President Bashar Assad’s regime has responded by both fatally shooting protesters, and promising reform, and a lawmaker told The Associated Press on Sunday that he expected Assad to soon announce that he was lifting a nearly 50-year state of emergency. The timing remained unclear.