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Assad's army bombs Damascus
[Al Ahram] A Syrian army shelling of Damascus killed six people Wednesday and 11 others died in a rebel attack on a Alawite village in central Syria, a monitoring group said. The army targeted the southern Damascus neighbourhood of Al-Hajar Al-Aswad, killing "a woman, three children and two men", said the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights.In central Damascus, several people were maimed when mortar rounds launched by rebels landed near Storied Baghdad ...located along the Tigris River, founded in the 8th century, home of the Abbasid Caliphate... Street and in the Kassaa neighbourhood, said the Britannia-based group. Another 11 people, including women, were killed when rebels attacked a majority Alawite village in the central province of Homs, said the Observatory. The rebels had entered the village of Shalluh but later withdrew, said the Observatory which relies on medics and activists on the ground for its reports. Embattled Syrian  Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir Pencilneckal-Assad Leveler of Latakia... belongs to the minority Alawite community, an offshoot of Shiite Islam, while most rebels fighting to oust him are Sunni Mohammedans. Earlier on Wednesday four people, among them two children, were killed "in an air strike" on the village of Latamneh, the group added. Posted by: Fred 2013-10-31 |
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