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Bombs kill nearly 150 in Syrian government-held cities – monitor

JABLEH,  SYRIA (Reuters) — Bomb blasts killed nearly 150 people and wounded at least 200 in Jableh and Tartous on Syria’s Mediterranean coast on Monday (May 23) in the government-controlled territory that hosts Russian military bases, monitors and state media said. Islamic State claimed responsibility for the attacks in the cities that have up to now escaped the worst of the violence. It said it was targeting members of President Bashar al-Assad’s Alawite minority. The […]