The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights described protests in Hama, where tens of thousands of people took to the streets, as “the biggest demonstration since the Syrian Revolution broke out”.
DAMASCUS — An army conscript based at a military airport in northern Syria confirmed for GlobalPost that military commanders are working to prevent large-scale defections.
The protests came as US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton told a democracy conference in Lithuania that the clock was ticking for Assad, who would continue to see “increasingly organised resistance” to his crackdown.
BEIRUT — Known as “thug-in-chief,” Maher al-Assad has become the de facto power in Syria, leading his troops around the country to kill protesters threatening his family’s 41-year-old dictatorship.
HATAY, Turkey — More than a dozen Syrian soldiers fled to Turkey on Friday. A local trafficker said that of the 14 soldiers who defected, two were colonels in the Syrian army.
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