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29 March 2024

16 soldiers killed in Syria car bomb attack

A picture taken on October 18, 2013, shows a rebel fighter standing behind a broken television in the Salaheddin district of the northern Syrian city of Aleppo. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights reported dozens of deaths in the northern province of Aleppo as UN-Arab League representative Lakhdar Brahimi prepares a Middle East tour ahead of proposed peace talks next month. (AFP)

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At least 16 soldiers were killed in a car bomb attack and fighting that followed between Syrian government forces and Islamist rebels near Damascus on Saturday, a monitoring group said.

The bombing, carried out by a suicide bomber from the jihadist Al-Nusra Front, triggered heavy fighting at a key checkpoint between the rebel-held town of Mleha and Jaramana, a pro-regime area populated by Christians and Muslim Druze, said the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights.