(Wall Street Journal) Nour Malas - Syrian military forces have killed hundreds of people in two days of tank and mortar shelling in the country's north, antigovernment activists reported, reversing dissident soldiers' recent bid to carve out a safe zone in towns near the border with Turkey. Tanks sprayed antiaircraft rounds through neighborhoods while machine gun-wielding troops stormed homes looking for activists. The surge in violence comes two days after the Syrian government agreed to admit Arab monitors.
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