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Al-Arabiya's Report on August 15, 2012:
الجيش الحر يتبنى تفجير رئاسة الأركان في دمشق
The Free Army took responsibility for detonating [the seat of] the general staff in Damascus.
دمشق تعلن عن انفجار قرب فندق يقيم فيه المراقبون الدوليون
Damascus reporting an explosion from the neighbourhood of a hotel considered to host the National Surveillance.
تبنى الجيش السوري الحر تفجيراً استهدف صباح الأربعاء مقر الأركان العامة وسط العاصمة السورية دمشق
The Free Syrian Army [took responsibility] for the explosion on Wednesday morning at the seat of the People's General Staff in the center of Syria's capital Damascus.
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The following day, August 16, Al-Arabiya reported another massacre in the northern border region of Syria:
مجزرة جديدة يرتكبها النظام السوري بإعزاز الحدودية
A new massacre committed by the Syrian regime at [the frontier municipality of Azaz]
أكد طبيب سوري في مستشفى محلي أن غارة جوية شنتها طائرة سورية في بلدة أعزاز (شمالي البلاد)، أمس الأربعاء، أدت إلى مقتل 100 شخص، وإصابة 150 آخرين
A Syrian doctor in a local hospital confirmed an air raid by a Syrian plane in the municipality of Azaz in the northern part of the country, yesterday Wednesday [August 15], [leaving] a death toll of 100 persons and another 150 wounded.
Editor's Note: Later that day, CNN reported the air raid was directed against a nearby makeshift camp of reporters. As I followed earlier CNN footage of developments at the Syrian-Turkish border, it came to me without surprise that a camp of reporters (most probably from CNN) might exist on the Syrian side of the border after the Free Syrian Army recently took over control of that region. Now, the air raid is showing how dangerous any reporting from a battle-field can be. Only to remember that Al-Jazeera recently lost a reporter who died facing the camera, his bulletproof vest being blasted by a projectile for which it was not intended. Seconds later, his report was continued by a colleague. And that victim of war is not the only one among those who care for our "entertainment" far away from the battle-fields.
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In their special feature "Revolution Talk" on August 16, Al-Jazeera, Arabic TV, discussed latest developments of the day, including the difficulty to come to terms with China and Russia on the Syrian subject. Local news from Syria are as follows:
مواجهات بين الجيش السوري الحر و الجيش النظامي في مناطق بالعاصمة السورية دمشق
Confrontations between the Free Syrian Army (FSA) and troops of the regime in the outskirts of Syria's capital Damascus.
On August 13, the English service of Al-Jazeera had already reported about the Free Army's intention to block the main road from Damascus to Aleppo, thus keeping the seaports of Latakia and Tartus out of reach for government troops.
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