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Sunday, May 18, 2014

Syria general killed in clashes near Damascus



The head of Syria's Air Defense has been killed in fighting east of Damascus, an Islamist rebel coalition and a monitoring group said on Sunday, according to Reuters.

The Islamic Front and the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, a Britain-based monitoring group, said General Hussein Ishaq died of wounds suffered during a military offensive by President Bashar al-Assad's forces against rebels in Mleiha suburb, where the Air Defense administration has a large base.

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