How the world is going on, Turkey says some 10,000 have crossed over to its territory but many more are camping on the Syrian side.
The UK on Saturday advised against all travel to Syria and urged its nationals to leave as soon as possible.
Thousands of Syrian people have arrived in the border area over the pastweek, escaping military action in the north.
Residents said the army moved into Bdama, about 2km (1.2 miles) from the Turkish border, early on Saturday morning, firing machine guns and setting fire to buildings.
"They came at 7am to Bdama," said Saria Hammouda, a lawyer living in the border town.
"I counted nine tanks, 10 armoured carriers, 20 jeeps and 10 buses. I saw shabbiha (pro-government fighters) setting fire to two houses," she added.
Rami Abdulrahman, of the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, told Reuters: "Bdama's residents don't dare take bread to the refugees and the refugees are fearful of arrests if they go into Bdama for food."
Bdama is in the same region as the town of Jisral-Shughour, where a recent army campaign restored government control. its ansadness thing.
The army said it was pursuing "armed groups" who had seized Jisr al-Shughour and killed more than 100 security personnel. Other reports said there had been a mutiny among security forces in the town.
US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, writing in the pan-Arab London-based Asharq al-Awsat newspaper on Saturday, said military action would not quell the momentum for change in Syria.
The regime's "continued brutality may allow [President Assad] to delay the change that is under way in Syria, it will not reverse it," she wrote.
The UN says that at least 1,100 people have died since protests began, butSyrian rights groups put the overall death toll in Syriaat 1,297 civilians and 340 security force members. The people are killing
Activists and witnesses said security forces had opened fire on demonstrators in several locations on Friday, killing at least 19 people.
Syrian state media reported that a policeman had been killed and many others wounded.
Tanks, armoured personnel carriers and buses were used to secure Maarat al-Numan and Khan Sheikhoun, both on the road linking Damascus and Aleppo.
Opposition figure Walid al-Bunni said the government's grip on the country was weakening as the protests grew and spread through the country.
The authorities have called on people who fled the fighting to return home, but the town is reported to be almost deserted.
President Bashar al-Assad is facing the gravest threat to his family's 40-yearrule, as unrest that first erupted in March in the south of the country has nowengulfed the north and threatens to spread east towards Syria'sborder with Iraq.
The government crackdown has brought widespreadinternational condemnation. These desestors are going up and people are killingwith red
The UK on Saturday advised against all travel to Syria and urged its nationals to leave as soon as possible.
Thousands of Syrian people have arrived in the border area over the pastweek, escaping military action in the north.
Residents said the army moved into Bdama, about 2km (1.2 miles) from the Turkish border, early on Saturday morning, firing machine guns and setting fire to buildings.
"They came at 7am to Bdama," said Saria Hammouda, a lawyer living in the border town.
"I counted nine tanks, 10 armoured carriers, 20 jeeps and 10 buses. I saw shabbiha (pro-government fighters) setting fire to two houses," she added.
Bdama is in the same region as the town of Jisral-Shughour, where a recent army campaign restored government control. its ansadness thing.
The army said it was pursuing "armed groups" who had seized Jisr al-Shughour and killed more than 100 security personnel. Other reports said there had been a mutiny among security forces in the town.
US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, writing in the pan-Arab London-based Asharq al-Awsat newspaper on Saturday, said military action would not quell the momentum for change in Syria.
The regime's "continued brutality may allow [President Assad] to delay the change that is under way in Syria, it will not reverse it," she wrote.
The UN says that at least 1,100 people have died since protests began, butSyrian rights groups put the overall death toll in Syriaat 1,297 civilians and 340 security force members. The people are killing
Activists and witnesses said security forces had opened fire on demonstrators in several locations on Friday, killing at least 19 people.
Syrian state media reported that a policeman had been killed and many others wounded.
Tanks, armoured personnel carriers and buses were used to secure Maarat al-Numan and Khan Sheikhoun, both on the road linking Damascus and Aleppo.
Opposition figure Walid al-Bunni said the government's grip on the country was weakening as the protests grew and spread through the country.
The authorities have called on people who fled the fighting to return home, but the town is reported to be almost deserted.
President Bashar al-Assad is facing the gravest threat to his family's 40-yearrule, as unrest that first erupted in March in the south of the country has nowengulfed the north and threatens to spread east towards Syria'sborder with Iraq.
The government crackdown has brought widespreadinternational condemnation. These desestors are going up and people are killingwith red
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