Syria - Three Al-Manar journalists killed near Damascus

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Three Lebanese employees of Al-Manar, a TV station owned by Lebanon's Hezbollah, were fatally shot yesterday in Al-Maaloula, a Christian town 60 km south of Damascus. Al-Manar named the victims as reporter Hamza Al-Hajj Hassan, cameraman Mohamed Muntich and technician Halim Alouh. They were killed by shots fired by rebels still in Al-Maaloula after it was recovered by government forces backed by Hezbollah. The town had been in rebel hands for months. The TV station said the vehicles (...)

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