(AP-Washington Post) Bassem Mroue - Forces loyal to President Bashar al-Assad swept through the small farming village of Haswiyeh outside the Syrian city of Homs on Tuesday, torching houses and shooting and stabbing residents in an attack that killed 106 people, including women and children, activists said Thursday. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said some of the dead were "burnt inside their homes while other were killed with knives." The pro-government daily al-Watan reported Thursday that Syrian troops were "cleansing the villages of Haswiyeh and Dweir as well as their fields" of gunmen. All of the dead in Haswiyeh were Sunni Muslims, while residents reported that many of the attackers came from the nearby Shiite village of Mazraa.
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