Troops 'storm villages in Syria'

Syrian security forces pursuing anti-government protesters stormed a northern village today, killing at least one person and wounding many others during raids and house-to-house searches, activists said.

The operations in Sarameen, in northern Idlib province, were accompanied by similar raids in the village of Heet near the border with Lebanon, along with a military build-up just outside the central town of Rastan, which has become a hotbed of dissent against President Bashar Assad's regime.