Syrian Violence Continues Ahead of UN Envoy Visit -- Voice of America
Syrian troops continued their crackdown on opposition forces on the eve of a visit by new U.N.-Arab League envoy Kofi Annan, who is calling for a political solution to the year-long crisis.
The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said government soldiers stormed villages in the northwestern province of Idlib in an attempt to hunt down defectors belonging to the Free Syrian Army. Many there fear a major assault like the one that recently devastated the Homs neighborhood of Baba Amr.
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