SYRIA-POLITICS-UNREST-UN-HAFFE

A photo released by the state-run Syrian Arab News Agency (SANA) showsa team of United Nations observers touring the Syrian town of al-Haffe in the Mediterranean province of Latakia with an official Syrian security escort on June 14, 2012, a day after Syrian authorities said the area had been “cleansed” of rebel fighters. The UN monitors found it all but deserted with several state buildings burned to the ground after a rebel withdrawal the previous day from the besieged town and nearby villages that had been under intense shelling by regime forces for eight days, according to the Syrian Observatory. AFP PHOTO/HO/SANA == RESTRICTED TO EDITORIAL USE — MANDATORY CREDIT “AFP PHOTO / SANA ” — NO MARKETING NO ADVERTISING CAMPAIGNS — DISTRIBUTED AS A SERVICE TO CLIENTS