King Abdullah II vowed to hit back "with an iron fist" as officials in Amman said as well as those killed 14 others were injured when an explosives-laden truck was detonated at an army post near Rukban, on the isolated desert border with Syria.
At least three rebel fighters were killed, he said, as well as an opposition media activist, who was shot dead in the street by a sniper.
A Syrian opposition group said as many as 5,000 were killed in August, more than a fifth of the more than 23,000 who died over the previous year and a half.
A police spokesman in the city declined to confirm the number of dead, saying only that it would be disclosed Monday; other news agency reports said as many as 50 were killed.
"We're just vamping here," he said, as he killed a little time before cutting away to the last thing we needed, a promo for this week's Olympics coverage.
Hundreds of thousands of civilians officials say as many as 3m were killed in the nine-month conflict.
Security forces said they killed as many as 60 Maoist rebels in an offensive against a guerrilla camp in the Kalikot district, west of Katmandu, the capital.
"Every piece of ivory sold is an elephant that has been killed," he said as we stared down at what had recently been one of the world's great living mammals.
Beloved is not as easy to read as, say, To Kill a Mockingbird, but it is easy to get used to, and once the reader begins to distinguish among the elements, they fall into place quite clearly.
A sub-heading on a news story published last Saturday said: "As male mafiosos are killed or arrested, females are taking their place".
