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Syria crackdown claims more lives

Representatives of Syria's six-month-old protest movement joined opposition parties in Turkey on Saturday to forge a united front against Bashar al-Assad's regime after violence claimed at least 19 more lives.

AFP is using pictures from alternative sources as it was not authorized to cover this event and is not responsible for any alterations to content or date which cannot be independently verified. Image grab from YouTube shows Syrian anti-government demonstrators marching in the northeastern city of Kafr Nabl while holding a sign in reference to an attack by regime supporters on the US ambassador

One group, the Local Coordination Committees, put Friday's death toll as high as 23.

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