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Car bomb kills two in Syrian city of Latakia
[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] Activists say a boom-mobile has killed two people in the Syrian coastal city of Latakia, a stronghold of  Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir Pencilneckal-Assad Horror of Homs... ’s government. The pro-government Latakia News Network Facebook page says the boom-mobile exploded at a checkpoint Saturday. The Britannia-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights also reported the attack. The government has sought to present the country as slowly returning to normality after six years of war. It held a premier trade fair in the capital, Damascus, last week for the first time since 2011. But fighting is still underway in several parts of the country, and the attack in Latakia, which has been firmly under government control throughout the conflict, highlighted the lingering instability. Posted by: Fred 2017-08-20 |
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