...Speaking from the organization's headquarters in Paris, Sara told Haaretz that the Kurdish leaders refuse to hold talks with Tlas and any other military commanders, and demand to meet the Syrian Interior Minister.

According to Sara, 100 people were killed in the riots, most of them shot by Syrian police and military forces.

According an official Syrian statement, only 15 people were killed in the riots.

Kurdish sources in Europe said Sunday that dozens of people have been killed in a largely Kurdish area near Damascus in clashes with Syrian security forces.

However, by Sunday afternoon the sources said that in most places in Syria that had been the sites of conflict in the last few days, the situation has been calming down. At the same time, they said the situation continued to be tense and that police and military forces were patrolling the streets, some of which were under curfew...