SYRIEN - En sammanställning av konflikten

Three anti-government protesters were killed when forces loyal to Bashar al-Assad fought rebels near the border with Turkey, undermining the day-old truce negotiated by peace envoy Kofi Annan.
"I firmly believe the international community should live up to its responsibilities and create the conditions for humanitarian corridors so that these poor people who are being massacred can escape a dictator," President Nicolas Sarkozy told news TV channel i>tele.
Expressing doubt about Assad's commitment to the truce, Sarkozy added: "I do not believe Bashar al-Assad is sincere. Sadly I do not believe this ceasefire," he said.
Sarkozy, waging an uphill battle for re-election in a vote that opens on April 22, said he discussed Syria with U.S. President Barack Obama on Thursday, including a U.N.-backed plan to send observers to ensure it was being implemented.
The Security Council is set to vote on the observer mission later on Friday.
Paris, which has led calls for Assad to step aside, wants a safe passage for relief organisations - with Syrian approval or an international mandate - to get food and medicine to civilians caught up in the fighting.
Annan's spokesman in Geneva also called for aid corridors to be opened, saying about 1 million people needed help in Syria.
Under the French plan to bring in aid, humanitarian corridors would link the frontiers of Turkey, Lebanon or Jordan, to the Mediterranean coast or to an airport.
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BEIRUT (AP) -- A Syria cease-fire was largely holding Friday as tens of thousands of protesters poured into the streets in the first major test of the U.N.-brokered truce. Activists said regime forces fired live bullets and tear gas in some locations, killing at least five people, but stood back in other areas where demonstrators beat drums and chanted anti-regime slogans. President Bashar Assad's forces halted the large-scale shelling attacks on opposition strongholds that have pushed the country toward civil war over the past 13 months. But security forces backed by tanks, snipers and plainclothes agents maintained an intimidating presence in the streets and scattered violence was reported.
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In the Damascus suburbs of Zabadani and Douma and in northern town of Idlib, large crowds linked arms and chanted anti-government slogans. In the southern city of Daraa, birthplace of the uprising, several hundred people formed rows, holding hands and dancing to the beat of a drum while chanting "Come on, Bashar, Leave!"
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Bassma Kodmani, a spokeswoman for the opposition Syrian National Council, said a heavy security presence, including checkpoints and snipers, remained in the streets despite the cease-fire.
"There is no evidence of any significant withdrawal," she told reporters in Geneva. "The real test for us today is if people can go and demonstrate peacefully" she added. "This is the real reality check."
But analysts said the apparent halt in government attacks suggests Assad's allies are pressuring him for the first time, after shielding him from international condemnation in the past. Annan has visited Russia, Iran and China to get the broadest possible backing for the plan.
On Thursday, the Russian and Chinese ambassadors called the Syrian cease-fire an important step and said they supported implementation of all points in the Annan plan -- including the troop and equipment withdrawal.
"We're encouraged that we do now have a cessation of violence in Syria," Russia's U.N. Ambassador Vitaly Churkin said. "We hope it holds. Everybody needs to behave with maximum prudence for that to happen."
"Frankly, there is one thing which Mr. Annan, I hope, is going to accomplish very soon -- clear-cut agreement by opposition leaders to enter into dialogue with the Syrian government," Churkin added. "This so far has not happened."
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The Ministry of Interior called on the armed persons whose hands weren't tainted by the blood of the Syrians to hand themselves and weapons in to the closet Police Center as to be set free and to halt any legal procedures against them.

In a statement Thursday, the Ministry also appealed to the Syrians, who were forced by the armed terrorist groups to leave their houses, to return to their houses where the State establishments are carrying out repair operations to the properties which have been damaged by the armed terrorist groups.
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