The original content of Democracy Now! Headlines appears under the Creative Commons BY-NC-ND 3.0 License (United States). For more, including their other shows and media, visit www.democracynow.org. March 23, 2012 Activists: 40 Killed in Syria Crackdown ---------------------------------------- In Syria, activists say more than 40 people were killed Thursday in the Assad regime's crackdown on the year-long uprising. Most of the killings reportedly occured in the provinces of Idlib and Homs. .