07.05.2011                      03.Ijar, 5771                      Tag 18 des Omer

Syrien:

US threatens new action unless Syria stops killings

30 protesters killed as unrest continues; EU agrees to freeze Syrian assets; tanks are deployed in Homs, Damascus.

The United States, reacting to the killing of 30 protesters by Syrian security forces on Friday, threatened to take new steps against the Syrian government unless it stopped killing and harassing its people.
Rights campaigners said the dead were among thousands of protesters who demonstrated after Friday prayers in cities across the country, from Banias on the Mediterranean coast to Qamishly in the Kurdish east, demanding an end to President Bashar Assad's rule….