BEIRUT, May 13 (Reuters) - Syria will hold a "national dialogue" across the country in the coming days, Information Minister Adnan Hasan Mahmoud said on Friday, after two months of protests against the rule of President Bashar al-Assad.
Mahmoud told a news conference, broadcast on Syrian television, that army units had started a gradual withdrawal from the coastal city of Banias and completed their withdrawal from the southern city of Deraa.
(Reporting by Mariam Karouny; Editing by Michael Roddy)
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