...which often include carefully measured allowances of
freedomat the convenience of the state...
group said.
"Eight non-combatants were killed by a device that went
kaboom!as their minibus passed on the road between Idlib and Aleppo,"
...For centuries, Aleppo was Greater Syria's largest city and the Ottoman Empire's third, after Constantinople and Cairo. Although relatively close to Damascus in distance, Aleppans regard Damascenes as country cousins...
in the north, said the Britannia-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, without specifying the identity of the assailants.
In the same province, an activist was killed by a sharp shooter, while at a shop in the town of Khan Sheikhoun, the Observatory said.
And in Homs, a flashpoint of the protest movement against
Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir Pencilneckal-Assad
The Scourge of Hama...
's regime, troops traveling in armored vehicles in Al-Qahira Street "opened fire arbitrarily, killing a civilian and wounding nine others," it added.
Meanwhile,
...back at the wrecked scow, a single surviver held tightly to the smashed prow...
the Local Coordination Committees, the main activist group spurring protests on the ground, said security forces killed 28 civilians and four army defectors.
Nineteen people were killed in the central opposition bastion Homs, eight in Idlib province, two in the Damascus
...The
City of Jasminis the oldest continuously-inhabited city in the world. It has not always been inhabited by the same set of fascisti...
suburbs of Qatana and Madaya, one in the southern province of Daraa and two in the flashpoint central province of Hama.
In Aleppo, Syria's second largest city, they raided the university campus after a rally organized the previous night by students, shattering furniture and arresting some of the protesters.