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DAMASCUS, Jan. 11 (Xinhua) -- Syria's interim authorities said they thwarted a planned bombing at a Shiite shrine south of Damascus, state news agency SANA reported on Saturday. Citing an unnamed ...

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DAMASCUS (AP) — Intelligence officials in Syria's new de facto government thwarted a plan by the Islamic State group to set off a bomb at a Shiite shrine in the Damascus suburb of Sayyida Zeinab ...

Syrian authorities foiled an attempt by Islamic State group jihadists to blow up a revered Shiite shrine in a Damascus suburb, a source within Syria's intelligence agency told state news agency SANA ...

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