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At Least 13 Killed in Violence across Syria
[An Nahar] Violence across Syria on Thursday killed at least 13 people, nearly all of them civilians, a monitoring group said.Three civilians died as regime forces stormed villages near the town of Maaret al-Numan, in northwestern Idlib province, which has been under a relentless army assault since the start of the month, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said. Five other civilians, among them a woman, died in central Homs province and three died in nearby Hama province, where two soldiers were also killed when their vehicle came under attack by armed rebels, the Britannia-based group added. Clashes were also taking place near the town of Zabadani, in Damascus ...Capital of the last remaining Baathist regime in the world... province. A loud blast was reported in Harasta, also in Damascus province, and plumes of smoke could be seen rising near an army checkpoint, the Observatory said. In the village of Dael, in southern Daraa province, fierce festivities were reported between regime forces and rebel troops. "Eight soldiers have been maimed and a military armored vehicle was hit," the Observatory said. Posted by: Fred 2012-03-30 |
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