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Associated Press: Syrian forces’ bombing intensifies in southern rebel holdout

Published July 18, 2018. Updated July 18 at 9:41 pm

A young boy walks among buildings destroyed during airstrikes by Syrian regime forces in the rebel-held town of Nawa, about 30 kilometres north of Daraa in southern Syria, on July 11, 2018.

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BEIRUT — Syrian government forces determined to retake the largest opposition holdout in the country’s southwest unleashed an intense bombing campaign, killing at least a dozen people and wounding over 100 in a densely populated town, activists and rescuers said on July 18.