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BEIRUT (Reuters) – The bodies of 17 men previously held by Syrian security forces have been found in the city of Hama, activists said on Saturday, victims of a deadly struggle between President Bashar al-Assad and those determined to topple him.
Turkey was due to meet Gulf Arab states later in the day to reinforce support for an Arab call for Assad to quit. The Arab League and Western countries are pushing for a U.N. Security Council resolution on Syria, resisted by Assad’s ally Russia.
Elsewhere in Syria, security forces firing mortars at the northeastern town of Quwaira killed an infant, activists said.
An oil pipeline was also set ablaze in the town at dawn, although it was not immediately clear if this was the work of saboteurs or the result of firing by security forces. The pipeline supplies crude oil to the Banias refinery.
The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said troops were battling rebels in the central town of Rastan and that
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