Children among 74 dead in 2 days of Syrian turmoil

By: BASSEM MROUE and ZEINA KARAM - The Associated Press

The Associated PressPROTESTS: This citizen journalism image provide by the Local Coordination Committees in Syria purports to show anti-Syrian regime protesters carrying an Arabic banner, front, reading: “hey Homs, we are coming,” during a demonstration, at Taftanaz town on Friday in Idl...

BEIRUT — Two days of bloody turmoil in Syria killed at least 74 people, including small children, as forces loyal to President Bashar Assad shelled residential buildings and fired on crowds in a dramatic escalation of violence, activists said Friday.

Video posted online showed th...

Published: 01/28/2012