US/Media Misinformation on Russian/Syrian Relations (tags)
Syria
Syrian authorities break up rare protest. U.S. diplomat, journalists briefly detained (tags)
DAMASCUS, Syria -- In a capital awash with Syrian flags, banners of support for President Bashar Assad and pamphlets declaring his party's achievements on its 41st anniversary, the paper banner raised by about 20 human rights activists urging freedom for political prisoners did not fit in.