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      The Internal Security Forces and the General Intelligence Directorate carried out an operation against the terrorist cell responsible for the recent Damascus bombings, through simultaneous raids targeting several locations in Damascus and its countryside, which resulted in the arrest of all members of the cell. Photo: Syrian Ministry of Interior

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