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'31 dead in Syrian government air strikes' close to Damascus

2015-08-12 45 Dailymotion

At least 31 people have been killed in air strikes just outside the Syrian capital of Damascus, a monitoring group has said.<br /><br /> The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said government air forces struck a series of rebel-held neighbourhoods, including Saqba and Darayya.<br /><br /> It said that at least 120 people were injured.<br /><br /> Euronews has been unable to independently verify the Observatory’s casualty figures.<br /><br /> The strikes came as rebels bombarded the capital with rockets.<br /><br /> Those attacks killed at least four people, according to the Syrian interior ministry.<br /><br /> Meanwhile, a two day truce agreed on between Lebanese Hezbollah fighters in a Syrian border town and militant and rebels groups started earlier.<br /><br /> The cease-fire silenced the guns in the town of Zabadani, as well as villages in Syria’s Idlib province.<br /><br /> Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif has travelled to Damascus where he is to discuss an Iranian plan to end the bloodshed.<br /><br /> The plan will put forward to the UN and it is belie

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