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                    Assad Appears in Public for Eid Prayers

   by VOA News

   Syrian President Bashar al-Assad joined prayers at a Damascus mosque
   Sunday for the Muslim festival of Eid al-Fitr, a three-day holiday
   marking the end of the Muslim holy month of Ramadan.
   It was Assad's first public appearance since a bombing in the Syrian
   capital last month that killed the country's defense minister and three
   other top security officials.
   Elsewhere in Syria, the London-based Syrian Observatory for Human
   Rights reported that violent clashes were continuing between rebel
   fighters and government forces.  The group also said that thousands of
   people across the country were holding protests in mosques and
   cemeteries, calling for the ouster of President Assad.
   On Saturday, activists said the military carried out air raids on
   rebel-held areas in the country, including the border town of Azaz in
   the northern region of Aleppo, where more than 40 people were killed in
   an attack on Azaz earlier in the week.
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