Residents: Syrian troops mass around coastal city

Friday, May 6, 2011

BEIRUT -- The Syrian army said Thursday it has begun withdrawing from a city at the heart of the country's uprising, but the regime expanded its crackdown elsewhere by deploying soldiers and arresting hundreds ahead of a new wave of anti-government protests.

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