Hama

A series of missile strikes hit Syrian military bases near Hama and Aleppo on Sunday night. According to both Syrian media and the London-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, several dozen people representing forces loyal to the regime of Bashar Assad were killed, including a number of Iranians.

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Two suicide bombers blew themselves up in the Syrian government-held city of Hama on Monday, killing a number of people, Syria’s state news agency SANA reported.

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