Posted on 01/23/2012 6:48:27 AM PST by nuconvert
Army defectors overran a protest hub near Damascus before pulling back, activists said on Sunday, ahead of an Arab League meeting to decide the future of its heavily criticised observer mission to Syria. Fierce clashes erupted late Saturday in Douma, just northeast of the capital, after security forces shot dead four civilians at a funeral in the town, said the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights.
"Groups of deserters took control of all districts in the town of Douma, near Damascus, after fierce fighting on Saturday with Syrian security forces," the Observatory's chief Rami Abdel Rahman told AFP.
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Syrian anti-regime demonstrators burning portraits of Iran's Supreme leader, Ali Khamenei ,Hassan Nasrallah and President Dmitry Medvedev, Vladimir Putin and Sergey Lavrov during a protest in the northwestern town of Kfar Nubul in Idlib .
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Syrian anti-regime demonstrators burning portraits of Iran's Supreme leader, Ali Khamenei ,Hassan Nasrallah and President Dmitry Medvedev, Vladimir Putin and Sergey Lavrov during a protest in the northwestern town of Kfar Nubul in Idlib.
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