12-year-old killed as Syrian forces seal city in crackdown on anti-regime protesters
• Washington PostGunfire and shelling rattled a city in central Syria on Sunday and killed a 12-year-old boy, as President Bashar Assad’s autocratic regime expanded its military crackdown on a seven-week-old uprising, activists said.
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