Police and army soldiers were killed in an ambush in the town of Binnish on Thursday, SANA reported on Friday. The attack also left 19 others maimed.
Government forces also seized large quantities of weapons, ammunition and communications equipment in Idlib.
This is while activists accuse Syrian forces of killing 10 protesters on the outskirts of Dara'a, Saqba, Damascus
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City of Jasminis the oldest continuously-inhabited city in the world. It has not always been inhabited by the same set of fascisti...
and in Aleppo
...For centuries, Aleppo was Greater Syria's largest city and the Ottoman Empire's third, after Constantinople and Cairo. Although relatively close to Damascus in distance, Aleppans regard Damascenes as country cousins...
Syria has been the scene of unrest over the past months and activists say the unrest has claimed the lives of thousands of people.
The country's opposition holds
President-for-Life Bashir Pencilneckal-Assad
Despoiler of Latakia...
's government responsible for the deaths that have occurred since the outbreak of street protests in the country in mid-March.
But Damascus says that the unrest is being orchestrated from outside the country and that security forces have been given clear instructions not to harm civilians.