Clashes Continue In Syria As Annan Readies UN Briefing -- Voice of America
Fresh violence erupted Monday in Syria between government and opposition forces as international envoy Kofi Annan prepared to brief the U.N. Security Council on his mission's progress to ease the bloody crisis.
The Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said forces loyal to Syrian President Bashar al-Assad killed two people in arrest raids in northern Idlib province. The group also said rebels killed two soldiers in attacks on checkpoints in the south. And one person died in the northern city of Aleppo when explosives stashed in a kiosk blew up.
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