Activist: no reports of violence at truce deadline
By BASSEM MROUE and KARIN LAUBBy BASSEM MROUE and KARIN LAUB, Associated Press?
?In this photo released by the semi-official Iranian Students News Agency (ISNA), International envoy Kofi Annan, left, gestures during his meeting with Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, on the Iranian island of Qeshm, Wednesday, April 11, 2012. Annan, the U.N.-Arab League envoy, has been pushing Damascus to withdraw its troops from cities and halt all violence in 48 hours to salvage his peace plan. He has appealed to Syria's key ally Iran to support his plan to end the violence wracking the Arab country, saying that "any further militarization of the conflict would be disastrous." (AP Photo/ISNA, Hamid Foroutan)
In this photo released by the semi-official Iranian Students News Agency (ISNA), International envoy Kofi Annan, left, gestures during his meeting with Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, on the Iranian island of Qeshm, Wednesday, April 11, 2012. Annan, the U.N.-Arab League envoy, has been pushing Damascus to withdraw its troops from cities and halt all violence in 48 hours to salvage his peace plan. He has appealed to Syria's key ally Iran to support his plan to end the violence wracking the Arab country, saying that "any further militarization of the conflict would be disastrous." (AP Photo/ISNA, Hamid Foroutan)
In this photo released by the semi-official Iranian Students News Agency (ISNA), International envoy Kofi Annan, left, shakes hands with Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, at the beginning of their meeting on the Iranian island of Qeshm, Wednesday, April 11, 2012. Annan, the U.N.-Arab League envoy, has been pushing Damascus to withdraw its troops from cities and halt all violence in 48 hours to salvage his peace plan. He has appealed to Syria's key ally Iran to support his plan to end the violence wracking the Arab country, saying that "any further militarization of the conflict would be disastrous." (AP Photo/ISNA, Hamid Foroutan)
U.N.-Arab League envoy Kofi Annan listens to a question during a joint news conference with Iranian Foreign Minister Ali Akbar Salehi, unseen, in Tehran, Iran, Wednesday, April 11, 2012. Annan appealed to Syria's key ally Iran to support his plan to end the violence wracking the Arab country, saying that "any further militarization of the conflict would be disastrous." (AP Photo/Vahid Salemi)
U.N.-Arab League envoy Kofi Annan speaks during a joint news conference with Iranian Foreign Minister Ali Akbar Salehi, unseen, in Tehran, Iran, Wednesday, April 11, 2012. Annan appealed to Syria's key ally Iran to support his plan to end the violence wracking the Arab country, saying that "any further militarization of the conflict would be disastrous." (AP Photo/Vahid Salemi)
Iranian Foreign Minister Ali Akbar Salehi, speaks during a joint news conference with U.N.-Arab League envoy Kofi Annan, unseen, in Tehran, Iran, Wednesday, April 11, 2012. Annan appealed to Syria's key ally Iran to support his plan to end the violence wracking the Arab country, saying that "any further militarization of the conflict would be disastrous." Salehi insisted that "change in Syria" should come under the leadership of Syrian President Bashar Assad. (AP Photo/Vahid Salemi)
BEIRUT (AP) ? Activists say a deadline for a U.N.-brokered cease-fire has passed without reports of major violence, just hours after Syria promised to observe the halt in fighting.
The truce deadline was 6 a.m. Thursday.
But there were only dim hopes for an abrupt end to the bloodshed. Syria has backtracked on previous peace plans and has characterized the uprising it's facing as a terrorist plot.
The Britain-based Observatory of Human Rights, an activist group, says some shot were fired in a Damascus neighborhood after midnight Wednesday and that an explosion went off in a car in a Damascus suburb, causing no injuries.
Syria said Wednesday that it would stop its military operations but that it has a right to defend itself against the terrorists it says are behind a year-old uprising.
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BEIRUT (AP) ? Activists say a deadline for a U.N.-brokered cease-fire has passed without reports of major violence, just hours after Syria promised to observe the halt in fighting.
The truce deadline was 6 a.m. Thursday.
But there were only dim hopes for an abrupt end to the bloodshed. Syria has backtracked on previous peace plans and has characterized the uprising it's facing as a terrorist plot.
The Britain-based Observatory of Human Rights, an activist group, says some shot were fired in a Damascus neighborhood after midnight Wednesday and that an explosion went off in a car in a Damascus suburb, causing no injuries.
Syria said Wednesday that it would stop its military operations but that it has a right to defend itself against the terrorists it says are behind a year-old uprising.
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