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January 14, 2013

Activists Claim 20 Killed in Syrian Government Bombing 
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At least 20 people have reportedly been killed in a Syrian government
airstrike in a rebel-held town south of Damascus. The Britain-based
Syrian Observatory for Human Rights says six children were among the
dead. The reported strike comes one day after Syrian opposition
activists claimed 36 people, including 14 children, died in government
bombings. On Friday, international envoy Lakhdar Brahimi held a new
round talks with top U.S. and Russian envoys in Switzlerand, with no
apparent breakthroughs.
bq. Lakdar Brahimi: "We stressed again that in our view there was no
military solution to this conflict. We underscored the necessity to
reach a political solution based on the Geneva communique of 30 June
2012. There is an absolute necessity for people to continue to work for
search a peaceful solution and that it is the wider international
community, especially members of the (U.N.) Security Council that can
really create the opening that is necessary to start effectively solving
the problem."

 

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