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Syria: Assad regime encircling rebel forces in Damascus’s Ghouta
The Assad regime forces and their allies seized a strategic area in the besieged rebel-held eastern Ghouta area of Damascus, putting up more pressure on the biggest insurgent stronghold near the capital. Rebels said the [ More … ]