Syria back to doing what Syria does.
As many as 27 protesters have been killed across Syria after security forces reportedly shot at protesters, hundreds of thousands of whom took to the streets in the biggest protests so far against Bashar al-Assad's rule.
Police fired live ammunition and teargas in the capital Damascus, killing five people, and in southern Syria near the Jordanian border, where four people were killed, the Reuters news agency said quoting witnessess and activists.
Three protesters were shot dead in the northern city of Idlib, they said.
Reuters quoted a witness in the Rukn al-Din district of Damascus as saying that hundreds of young men wearing white masks fought security forces with sticks and stones.
