UN monitoring head says still time to end violence in Syria

In one of the most direct and unexpected confrontations of recent months,
Syrian security forces stormed the main university dormitory in Aleppo,
Syria’s second city which has seen the fewest protests.

Students had staged an evening protest on Wednesday, which was attacked by
young men, apparently fellow students, wielding knives. Troops then stormed
the dormitories, with some students jumping from the windows to escape. At
least four were killed, according to activists inside and outside the
country, 28 wounded and 200 arrested.

The rampage continued till dawn, with the soldiers smashing up rooms and
breaking windows.

The day before, the Free Syrian Army inflicted one of the worst death tolls on
the army not far from Aleppo, when they killed 15 troops, including two
colonels, in an ambush.

Regime officials, while saying the country is under control, have imposed
close limitations on where journalists allowed into the country have been
allowed to visit, citing security concerns particularly after 4pm.

In the southern city of Deraa, much of which is a ghost town apart from army
checkpoints, Major General Mohammed Adib Assaad, said attacks were taking
place within a few hundred yards of his headquarters, and parts of the
surrounding countryside were too unsafe to visit.

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