(AP-ABC News) Elizabeth A. Kennedy - Syrian army defectors killed at least 27 soldiers and security forces Thursday in clashes in the southern province of Daraa, activists said. Frederic Hof, the State Department's pointman on Syria, told Congress on Wednesday, "Our view is that this regime is the equivalent of dead man walking....I do not see this regime surviving." On Thursday, Human Rights Watch issued a report identifying 74 Syrian commanders and officials who authorized or gave direct orders for widespread killings, torture, and illegal arrests of protesters.
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