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…e to raise tensions ahead of a UN Security Council meeting on the Syria observer mission. If it is confirmed, the Tremseh attack would be one of the bloodiest single events in the Syria conflict. Some 16,000 people are thought to have been killed since the uprising against Bashar al-Assad’s regime began in March 2011. Reports suggest the army was trying to take back Tremseh after it had fall…
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