DAMASCUS - Syrian forces were accused on Wednesday of having “executed” 15 civilians, as the office of envoy Kofi Annan said members of a UN observer team were evacuated a day after a bomb blast hit their convoy. “After regime forces raided the neighbourhood of Shammas (in the central city of Homs), 15 civilians were found summarily executed,” Rami Abdel Rahman of the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights told AFP, in what he branded a “massacre.” The overnight killings ...

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Diplomacy still seems to have a chance in Syria. Damascus is all set to witness a week full of hectic activities as from UN humanitarian chief to special envoy for the dispute are likely to rub shoulders with the powers-that-be in the capital.

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