NATO declared that a Patriot missile battery went operational on Turkey's border with Syria on Saturday, as a watchdog reported regime warplanes launched raids on a Damascus district.
Syrian forces fired nail bombs to disperse tens of thousands of protesters Friday in the Damascus suburb of Douma and the demonstrators retaliated with stones, activists said.
Thirty-four Syrians abducted by pro-regime "shabiha" militiamen on Monday were found dead in the flashpoint central city of Homs, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights reported.
