Syrian forces 'storm border town'

[pampango]

Source: Aljazeera

Tanks and armoured vehicles enter Saraqeb near Turkish frontier, arresting at least 100 people, activists say.


Image shows Syrian tanks deployed in the eastern Syrian city of Deir ez-Zor earlier in August

The Syrian army has stormed a northwestern town near Turkey's border a day after authorities said the military had pulled out of the region, activists and local residents say.

The London-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said that troops stormed Saraqeb in northwestern Idlib province early on Thursday, detaining at least 100 people.

"Around 14 tanks and armoured vehicles entered Saraqeb this morning, accompanied by 50 buses, pick-ups and security cars. They started firing randomly and storming houses," a resident who fled Saraqeb, 50km southeast of Turkey's Iskenderun province, said.

Further south, in the central province of Homs, columns of tanks entered Qusayr early on Thursday, a rights activist in the town said, reached by telephone. "Residents fled into the fields and all communications have been cut with the town," the activist said.

Read more: http://english.aljazeera.net/news/middleeast/2011/08/2011811101246459926.html

[Uncle Joe]

1. Kicked and recommended.

Thanks for the thread, pampango.

[pampango]

2. BBC: Syrian forces 'kill seven in Homs', activists claim

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-14493050

Syrian security forces have killed at least seven people in Homs, according to activists.

They are the latest deaths in a crackdown on opposition groups by the government of Bashar al-Assad.

The US has now imposed new sanctions on Syrian companies, and has made its strongest condemnation yet of the regime.

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