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Syrian army suspends its attacks on protesters

Monitors visit beseiged city in relative calm

By Bassem Mroue

 |  Associated Press  

  December 28, 2011

Syria’s army suspended days of punishing attacks on the restive city of Homs and began withdrawing its tanks just as Arab League monitors visited the area, activists and officials said.

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