Syria (and Beyond) Live Coverage: Fighting Escalates in Aleppo and Damascus
Saturday, September 8, 2012 at 11:16 | Scott Lucas in EA Middle East and Turkey, Middle East and Iran Claimed footage of Free Syrian Army fighters inside the Hanano army barracks in Aleppo in Syria
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2020 GMT: Syria. The Local Coordination Committees report 172 people have been killed by security forces today, including 89 in Aleppo Province, 55 in Damascus and its suburbs, and 14 in Daraa Province.
State news agency SANA reports amnesty for "227 persons who were misled into getting involved in the recent events [and] whose hands are clean of the Syrians' blood...after pledging to not bear arms again".
According to SANA, some of those released said that they turned themselves in after realizing the scope of the conspiracy targeting Syria in implementation of foreign agendas".