LONDON — A leading Western energy major has been urged to withdraw from Syria.

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"The same goes for police cars and the vans of the security police that strike terror in the streets of Homs and Talkalakh."

Shell was said to own 20 percent of Syria's largest oil producer, Furat Petroleum. Furat sells all of its oil to state-owned General Petroleum Co., which exports 39 percent of Syrian production and supplies to the domestic market.

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