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September 12, 2013

Assad Forces Accused of Bombing Hospital; Al-Qaeda Group Linked to Massacre 
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In some of the latest violence from Syria today, local activists say
Assad regime warplanes have bombed one of the main field hospitals in
the rebel-held north. According to the Aleppo Media Center, 11
civilians, including two doctors, were killed in the town of al-Bab. The
Syrian Observatory for Human Rights meanwhile reports that 22 civilians
belonging to the minority Alawite sect have been killed in a massacre by
the al-Qaeda linked Nusra Front near the city of Homs.

 

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