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HASANKEYF, Turkey – Fighting intensified in Damascus on Thursday as the Syrian military sent attack helicopters and tanks against rebel forces after a bombing that killed three figures in the president's inner circle.

"There have been more attacks using helicopters, rockets and shelling some neighborhoods of Damascus," said Sami Ibrahim, an activist with the Syrian Network for Human Rights, speaking from Damascus. Ibrahim said he had received reports that 129 people had died in the day's attacks.

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