Report: Syria's to withdraw Assad troops from streets by Sunday #GiftsNotBullets

Report: Syria's to withdraw Assad troops from streets by Sunday

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Report: Syria's to withdraw Assad troops from streets by Sunday
Syria deputy foreign minister tells U.K.'s Daily Telegraph regime will implement Arab League plan accepted on Wednesday, as reports of regime violence continue with 9 killed on Saturday.
By DPA

The Syrian government is to withdraw security and military forces from civilian areas by Sunday under an Arab League plan to end the violence in the country, according to a senior official. "Syria means what it says and we will implement the Arab League agreement, every aspect of it. If we agree to something, we do it," the deputy foreign minister, Abdulfattah Ammura, told Britain's Daily Telegraph newspaper, in remarks published Saturday. "We are working on it. We will see it very shortly, hopefully before (the Muslim) Eid al-Adha (Sunday)," Ammura said. Damascus accepted the plan on Wednesday. But the regime's crackdown on protesters continued, with more than 39 people killed in the last two days, according to opposition activists. Nine people were killed in Syria on Saturday in fresh clashes between Assad's troops and protesters and army defectors. Three people were shot dead in the central city of Homs, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights reported, adding that two other bodies found bore signs of torture.