BEIRUT (AP) -- The armed resistance to President Bashar Assad's rule appears to be growing in Syria.
The Syrian state news agency says gunmen staged an ambush that killed a senior state prosecutor and a judge in a region near the Turkish border dominated by the opposition.
The roadway slayings came a day after a deadly hit-and-run attack on a political figure in the heart of the pro-Assad city of Aleppo.
While the targeted killings have not reached Assad's inner circle, they reflect a shift toward violent tactics by the opposition as it brings aboard more military defectors and seeks to tighten control over the small pieces of territory in its hands.
Meanwhile, opposition activists say 14 people have been killed across the country today, half by government troops.
Fears of civil war have neighboring Jordan racing to finish a refugee camp near the Syrian border to handle a possible exodus of people fleeing for safety.
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