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Syria security forces clash with militants
(AP)
Updated: 2005-12-05 10:23
Syrian security forces clashed on Sunday with militants planning to launch
terror attacks in the northern city of Aleppo, the state-run news agency
reported. Five people were wounded, including two militants.
The SANA news agency also reported for the first time that a separate clash
took place last week in Aleppo in which two militants were killed and a third
was wounded.
An unknown quantity of arms was seized during that clash, SANA said.
The report did not say which group the militants belonged to nor how the two
clashes 錕斤拷 the first in the area in three months 錕斤拷 were related. It was unclear
precisely when the earlier clash took place.
Sunday's clash took place on the road to Aleppo's airport, about 221 miles
northwest of the capital, Damascus, the SANA agency reported.
Terrorist attacks are rare in Syria, a tightly controlled country where the
regime has used heavy-handed tactics to crack down against Islamic extremism as
well as any form of dissent or instability.
There have been several clashes involving militants this year, and Syria has
been under pressure to root out suspected militants who the United States claims
use Syrian territory to plan attacks in Israel and Iraq.
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