Unrest In Syria -- News Updates April 8, 2011

Activists say at least 80 people have been killed since pro-democracy demonstrations began on March 18 [Reuters]

Thirteen Shot Dead After Syrian Police Use Live Rounds To Disperse Protesters -- The Daily Mail

*Security forces opened fire on crowds of people in hotbed southern city of Deraa
*Protests also break out among ethnic Kurds in the east and Homs and Damascus
*Government blames 'armed men' for violence as Syrians demand reform
* 100,000 gather in Cairo's Tahrir Square to demand prosecution of former Egyptian president Hosni Mubarak
*Two killed in Yemen as protests gather again against rule of President Saleh

Syrian security forces have killed at least 13 people after they opened fire to disperse thousands protesting against Bashar al-Assad.

Troops used live ammunition on crowds of people in the southern city of Deraa, where protests first erupted last month.

And in the east, thousands of ethnic Kurds called for reform despite an offer by the president this week to ease rules barring many Kurds from citizenship.

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More News On The Unrest In Syria

Death toll in Syria's Deraa rises to 17: sources -- Yahoo News/Reuters
Syrian security men kill 7 in Daraa: rights activist -- Yahoo News/AFP
Witness: 13 protesters killed in Syria -- Yahoo News/AP
Syrian city of Deraa hit by deadly clashes -- BBC
Witnesses: 17 killed as thousands protest in Syria -- MSNBC
Protesters killed in Syrian town of Daraa -- Al Jazeera
Syria protesters torch party outpost, smash statue -- Reuters
Police beat protesters at Damascus mosque -witness -- Reuters
Automatic gunfire heard at Damascus suburb protest -- Reuters
Protests erupt in Syrian Kurdish region: activist -- Reuters
Syria has heard all this reform talk before -- Brian Whitaker, The Guardian