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A soldier guards an army checkpoint in the Damascus suburb of Douma [Reuters] Protests in Syria have escalated into what some are calling a buregoning civil war, and the United Nations says more than 9,000 people have been killed since the uprising began in March last year. The government blames terrorists and "armed gangs" for the unrest and says more than 2,000 members of its security forces have been killed. The lastest news.... 8.32am Al Jazeera's Zeina Khodr reports from northern Lebanon on how the killing of an anti-Syrian cleric and the crisis in Syria is creating tensions across the border.
....................................................................... 8.32am NATO chief Anders Fogh Rasmussen has voiced concern about violence in Syria, but said the alliance has "no intention" of taking military action against the regime. "We strongly condemn the behavior of the Syrian security forces and their crackdowns on the Syrian population and we urge the Syrian leadership to accommodate the legitimate aspirations of the Syrian people," he told a news conference during an alliance summit in Chicago. "But again NATO has no intention to intervene in Syria." .............................................................. 8.29am An explosion detonated near a team of UN observers in the Damascus suburb of Douma on
Sunday, as clashes between Syrian troops and armed rebels raged in and around the Syrian
capital, reports the AFP news agency. No one was hurt in the Douma blast, which detonated
some 150m from a convoy carrying UN truce mission head
............................................................ 8.27am Reuters reports that activist video posted online shows bulldozers, which
activists say were used to dig mass graves. Syrian army shelling and gunfire killed 34 people, including children, on Sunday in the town of Souran in the central province of Hama, the UK-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights has said. The group's head, Rami Abdelrahman, citing residents, told Reuters: The army shelled the town and then stormed it .................................................................. 8.26am A restive district of the Syrian capital that has been a hotbed of dissent against President Bashar Assad was rocked by fighting overnight between government forces and army defectors, opposition groups said on Sunday. The Local Coordination Committees and the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said the clashes took place in Kfar Souseh early Sunday morning but there were no immediate reports of casualties. The district is a high security area, housing the Foreign Ministry and several security and intelligence agencies. It has also been the scene of frequent anti-Assad demonstrations since the uprising began. "Violent clashes broke out between rebel fighters and regime troops at a checkpoint in Kfar Souseh district,'' the Observatory said in a statement. Both the Observatory and LCC said explosions and gunfire were also heard in several other neighborhoods of Damascus as government forces continued shelling the opposition stronghold and Damascus suburb of Douma. [AP] ................................................................................................................................................................... 20 May 7.25am Twitter has been abuzz with reports of violence in central Damascus as well as the poisoning of high-ranking officials, including President Assad's brother-in-law. It appears that the reports are false. Activist Alexander Page wrote this regarding the claims: "Riad Al Asaad the FSA commander based in Turkey has given me a direct quote, that the only genuine news here is the clashes that took place in the Kafarsooseh area and that 2 explosions were heard during the process where FSA elements clashed with regime forces in the fields between that area near Mezzeh." ....................................................... 7.24am The Local Coordination Committees are reporting powerful explosions in Shaalan, a neighbourhood in the heart of Damascus, and intense gunfire in the upscale neighbourhoods of Abu Roumaneh and Malki. The activist network also reports clashes between the Free Syrian Army and government troops in the dirstrict of Kafr Souseh. Al Jazeera cannot confirm the reports. ............................................................... 7.22am The Syrian government has reportedly sentenced a citizen journalist to death after he gave a series of interviews to Al-Jazeera. Mohammed Abdelmawla al-Hariri was found guilty of "high treason and contacts with foreign parties". He was arrested in April soon after speaking to Al Jazeera about the situation in Deraa. Reporters Without Borders says it is shocked to learn of the sentence and that the verdict is unacceptable. ................................................................... 7.20am A car bomb that rocked the eastern Syrian city of Deir az-Zor on Saturday
killed nine people and wounded about 100, the official SANA news agency said.
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