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Death toll tops 100 in IS attacks on Syria’s Sweida: monitor
BEIRUT, July 25, 2018 (BSS/AFP) – A string of attacks by the Islamic
State group in Syria’s southern province of Sweida Wednesday killed 102
people, including 35 civilians, a monitor said giving a new death toll.
The attacks which included suicide blasts also killed 67 regime fighters
most of whom were residents who had picked up weapons to defend their
villages, said the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, a Britain-based
monitoring group.
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