Syria intensifes crackdown on protesters

Syria has dramatically escalated its crackdown on protesters with a wave of arrests in Damascus and raids in other flashpoint cities.

Security forces in the capital raided homes and shops on Wednesday and arrested dozens of activists in Rukn Eddin district, known to be a predominantly Kurdish area, where electricity was cut off.

Scores of others were arrested on the outskirts of the capital, activists said. By late Wednesday, a Syrian human rights group said ten protesters were killed and dozens injured in Homs. According to activists, security forces opened fire on Latakia, Aleppo, Hama, and Homs.

Tunisia on Wednesday recalled its ambassador to Syria because of "dangerous'' developments.

Al Jazeera's Nisreen El-Shemayleh, reporting from Ramtha, on the Syria-Jordan border, said large protests gathered in two Palestinian refugee camps to decry the shelling of al-Ramel refugee camp in Latakia by government gunships.