Two people were killed in each of the restive cities of Homs and Hama, and the body of a youth detained earlier by security forces was found in the eastern city of Deir al-Zor.
The woman, Zainab al-Hosni, 18, a resident of the restive city of Homs in central Syria, quickly became a symbol of the uprising against Mr. Assad and his government's brutal crackdown on antigovernment activists.
BEIJING — The new leader of the restive region of Xinjiang in western China has announced a series of economic measures to bolster confidence in the regional government, which was widely criticized by citizens after deadly ethnic rioting there last summer.
According to the police, Mr. Atyani and his crew arrived Monday in Jolo, the capital of the restive province of Sulu, about 950 kilometers, or 590 miles, south of Manila.
With his literary work gaining recognition starting in the late 1950s, Mr. Lustig became a prominent member of a restive group of writers and artists whose energies helped to foment the Prague Spring of 1968.
Last year he was made the police chief of the restive province of Papua, where he crossed swords with Indonesia's powerful military.
Kubatbek Baibolov, appointed last week as the military commander of the restive city of Jalalabad, said he believed that Mr. Bakiyev had engineered the violence so that he could return to power.
In central Syria, they said, the bodies of 11 civilians, bound and gagged, were discovered in a village northwest of the restive city of Homs, near the Lebanese border.
Trials are taking place in the restive province of Wardak, south of Kabul, where a total of 1,200 AP3 volunteers are to be deployed.
