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DEBKAfile was founded by a team of journalists in June 2000 as an independent Internet Web site, providing an intelligence and security news service. August 13, 2015, 12:18 PM (IDT)
The Syrian news agency reports that “terrorists fired several rockets” into Latakia, Bashar Assad’s Allawite stronghold Thursday causing a number of casualties. The town has been tense since a relative of the president shot dead a senior military officer. Damascus announced his arrest Tuesday in response to local protests.
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