DAMASCUS: Syrian troops buoyed by victory in Qusayr were preparing on Sunday (Monday in Manila) to launch a northern offensive, a security source said, as the conflict came to Beirut’s streets where a young demonstrator was killed.

At a protest outside the Iranian embassy against the Lebanese Shiite group Hezbollah’s direct involvement in the Syrian conflict, a man was shot and fatally wounded in the first such shooting in Beirut linked to the 26-month war.

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