Syrian forces raid neighborhoods near capital - Road Runner

Syrian forces raid neighborhoods near capital - Road Runner

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BEIRUT — Syrian security forces riding in vehicles mounted with machine-guns raided neighborhoods outside the capital, Damascus, before dawn Tuesday as Turkey's prime minister said he was concerned Syria could descend into a sectarian civil war.

Tuesday's raids were the latest assault on dissent in Syria as the regime tries to crush an uprising against President Bashar Assad's rule using deadly force that the U.N. estimates has killed 2,600 since March. But the protesters have refused to give in, setting the stage for a drawn-out stalemate.

"I fear that matters will end in civil war between the Alawites and the Sunnis," Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan told Egyptian daily Al-Shorouk in Tuesday's edition.