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8/12/12

Syrian journalists murdered in capital Damascus, local news agencies report - by Jamal Halaby

Syrian state news agency SANA also reported that security forces ambushed an armed group in Aleppo and killed and wounded some of them. It said that al-Safira residents in Aleppo prevented gunmen riding in five cars mounted with machine guns from entering their area.

In Cairo, the Arab League said an emergency meeting of Arab foreign ministers on Syria that had been scheduled for Sunday in Saudi Arabia has been postponed. It did not say why the meeting was postponed or give a new date.

SANA said one of its reporters, Ali Abbas, was killed at his residence in Damascus. The report blamed an “armed terrorist group” — the regime's catch-all term for its opponents — but gave no further details.

Read more: Syrian journalists murdered in capital Damascus, local news agencies report - The Globe and Mail

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