SYRIA: Assad deploys troops to border with Turkey

Syria's President Bashar al-Assad has made according to a rebel general's marching troops to the border with Turkey. An estimated 2,500 troops had been with 170 tanks and military vehicles stationed about 15 kilometers from the border, said Mustafa al-Sheikh. Some of the soldiers was near the city of Aleppo in northern Syria was stationed, General al-Sheikh said, referring to fighters of the rebel army . The military parade was a "show of force" and a response to a strengthening of Turkish troops on the border with Syria after the shooting of a Turkish fighter jets a week ago . Turkish media it was said that Turkey was in the process to create a new immune system for long-range missiles for the equivalent of some 3.2 billion euros. The Syrian opposition accused government forces of having committed a new massacre against the civilian population. Alone in the City Duma are more than 50 people were killed, including two entire families, activists said.

According to the opposition killed a total of 190 people

The 15 kilometers from Damascus town is besieged for weeks by forces that keep President Assad. "This is yet another massacre of many massacres Assad and his secret police," said a man in an on Youtube popular video, which will come from the Duma. Are on the video side of the road lined up to see veiled corpses. A man holds the lifeless body of a girl in her arms, whose pink shirt is soaked with blood.In total killed on Thursday in Syria after opposition Information 190 people.It was one of the richest days in the victim sustained for 16 months uprising against Assad. Before Saturday planned international conference in Syria crisis mediator Kofi Annan expressed confidence about a new plan for resolving the conflict.There will be an acceptable solution, he said.

Consultations to form a transitional government

In Geneva, the Foreign Minister to the UN veto powers, and from countries of the region through a new plan of Annan's Special Envoy for the formationof a transitional government advice in Syria . According to diplomats information was already negotiating to News is not expected before the end of a meeting between U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton with her ​​Russian counterpart Sergei Lavrov on Friday evening in St. Petersburg.Thus, the West warned against a failure of the conference, should succeed no agreement. Above all, Russia and China had in the past against a crackdown by the United Nations propped against Assad and prevents two resolutions of the UN Security Council against Syria. Finally, the government in Moscow, but hinted at a willingness to negotiate. She would not accept that Assad is excluded at the outset of a new transitional government.