Syria Funeral Firing

Syrian security forces opened fire on Saturday on a huge crowd gathered for the funerals of demonstrators killed in rare protests in the capital, an activist spokesman in Damascus province told AFP.

Syrian authorities have charged a US-born Syrian blogger with trying to incite sectarian strife, activists said on Tuesday, while regime forces fired on a funeral procession in a restive northwestern region, capping a bloody day of attacks that left at least 28 people dead.

The death toll in Syria's uprising against President Bashar Assad continued to rise on Saturday as security forces opened fire on funeral processions, killing at least twelve people around the country.Witnesses said security forces killed four people in Douma, a suburb of the capital.The witness account could not be independently confirmed because ...

Syrian security forces opened fire on Saturday on a huge crowd gathered for the funerals of demonstrators killed in rare protests in the capital, an activist spokesman in Damascus province told AFP.

Syrian authorities have charged a US-born Syrian blogger with trying to incite sectarian strife, activists said on Tuesday, while regime forces fired on a funeral procession in a restive northwestern region, capping a bloody day of attacks that left at least 28 people dead.

The death toll in Syria's uprising against President Bashar Assad continued to rise on Saturday as security forces opened fire on funeral processions, killing at least twelve people around the country.Witnesses said security forces killed four people in Douma, a suburb of the capital.The witness account could not be independently confirmed because ...