Monday, April 9, 2012

#Turkey #Syria Hopes dim for Syria pullout as bloodshed crosses borders

Mary Jo Dodd  -  1:22 PM  -    -  Public
Turkish officials say Syrian forces fired across the border at a refugee camp, wounding at least five people Monday, a day before a U.N.-brokered cease-fire is supposed to take effect.
Syrian activists tell VOA that two people were killed in the attack near a refugee camp in the southeastern Kilis region. About 25,000 refugees are currently housed in camps in Turkey's three provinces bordering Syria.
The Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights says the incident began early Monday wh...
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One day shy of a deadline for Syria to pull its forces from cities across the country, the violence instead seemed to be spreading -- even reaching across two borders, into Turkey and Lebanon. Seventy-five people were killed in Syria on Monday, according to the Local Coordination Committees of ...
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