ARAB League delegates arrived in Syria to arrange the deployment of foreign monitors under a plan aimed at ending the regime’s deadly 9-month-old crackdown on dissent.

Syrian troops have been accused of massacring an entire village with rockets, machine guns and tanks.

Syrian troops have killed at least 100 people in one of the deadliest incidents since the uprising against President Bashar Assad’s regime began, activists said today.

Security forces pursuing anti-government activists and army defectors shot dead at least 47 people in Syria, pushing the toll for two days of violence to nearly 150 even as the regime prepared to allow in foreign monitors under an Arab League plan aimed at stopping the bloodshed.

Syrian troops have attacked a northern town, killing at least 23 civilians, activists say.