Syria Engulfed By More Violence Thursday -- CNN
(CNN) -- Security personnel killed at least eight people across Syria and explosions and gunfire rocked the suburbs of the capital Damascus, activists said on Thursday, another day of deadly street rage portending worldwide fears of wider violence.
This comes a day after the Free Syrian Army, the band of military defectors, said it attacked an air intelligence base in Harasta outside Damascus and planted "powerful explosions inside and around the compound that shook its foundations." The London-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, said security forces embarked on raids in Harasta on Thursday, set up checkpoints and arrested dozens.
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