Sweeping arrests in Syria after military rolls in
Syrian security forces arrested more than 200 people early Sunday including a 10-year-old boy as President Bashar Assad expands a campaign to crush the country's seven-week, nationwide uprising, activists said.
Rami Abdul-Rahman, the director of the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, said more than 200 people were picked up overnight in Banias, a key oil-industry city on the Mediterranean coast where some of the largest protests have been held. On Saturday, troops in tanks and armored vehicles rolled in and sealed off the city. (AP)
