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Gunmen kill Syrian soldiers in Homs
[Iran Press TV] Gunmen have killed a number of Syrian government forces during festivities in the western restive city of Homs as violence continues to plague the country.Several soldiers were killed on Saturday when the gunnies attacked Syrian soldiers, local media reports said. Gunmen reportedly set army tanks ablaze following the heavy festivities. Reports also indicate that a lieutenant-colonel was also killed in similar outbreak of violence on Friday. Other reports from Syria said 12 people were killed in separate incidents in the provinces of Idlib, Homs and Dara'a on Saturday. Earlier in the week, Syria dispatched tanks to its border with Turkey following a confrontation with terrorist elements attempting to cross into the Syrian territory via Turkey. Syrian media reports said that Turkish troops in military vehicles had assisted the beturbanned goons injured in Monday night festivities with Syrian border guards. Syria has been experiencing a deadly unrest ever since mid-March, with demonstrations being held both against and in support of Assad's government. The Western-backed opposition in Syria accuses security forces of a bloody crackdown on protests. But Damascus ...Capital of the last overtly fascist regime in the world... has dismissed the accusation, arguing that the security forces have been given clear instructions not to harm civilians. Damascus blames the violence on foreign-sponsored terrorist groups, with the Syrian state TV broadcasting reports showing seized weapons caches and confessions by beturbanned goons describing how they obtained arms from foreign sources. Posted by: Fred 2011-12-11 |
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