Following the trend throughout the Middle East, the so-called Arab Spring appears to beget spread to Syria. The government crackdown on anti-government demonstrators in Homs and other provincial cities began over a year ago and is thought to beget claimed thousands of lives. Attempts at brokering ceasefires beget predictably failed.
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