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ISIS Suicide Bombings Kill Dozens, Setting Off Intense Fighting In Syria

Four attacks killed dozens of people, local media say, in a day of unusually intense violence for one southern province.
The aftermath of a suicide bombing attack in Sweida, a city in southern Syria, is seen here in a photo released by the state-run Syrian Arab News Agency.

Suicide bombers struck an open-air market and other targets in the southern Syrian city of Sweida early Wednesday. The four attacks killed dozens of people and injured dozens more, local media say, in a region where

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