"A 15-year-old minor was killed and three people were maimed by security forces during raids," in the town of Dael, near the southern city of Daraa, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said in a statement.
More than 5,000 people on Wednesday demonstrated in Dael calling for the fall of the regime of Syrian
Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir Pencilneckal-Assad
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, the Observatory said, adding that 23 people were tossed in the clink in the town.
Further north, two non-combatants were killed in the region of Homs, one shot by sniper fire, the other by security forces, the Britannia-based watchdog said.
The Local Coordination Committees, an activist network spurring protests on the ground, said security forces entered several towns to the east of Damascus
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looking for people "on the basis of lists."
State television, meanwhile, broadcast images of a huge pro-Assad rally in the coastal city of Latakia, saying the rally showed people's support for (Assad's) reform program and their rejection of foreign interference.
Assad on Wednesday received a delegation of Arab League
...an organization of Arabic-speaking states with 22 member countries and four observers. The League tries to achieve Arab consensus on issues, which usually leaves them doing nothing but a bit of grimacing and mustache cursing...
ministers led by Qatar, which announced that a new meeting would take place on Sunday in a bid to find a political solution to the crisis.
The Arab League's visit, which sought to mediate between the regime and the opposition, coincided with a new wave of violence that left at least 27 people, including 11 military, dead in Syria, activists said.
The regime's brutal crackdown on protest has killed at least 3,000 people since mid-March, according to U.N. figures.