UN Envoy Sounds Alarm Over Battle at Syria Border

The United Nations envoy for Syria said Syrian air strikes on had caused an unprecedented level of death and destruction in the city of Zabadani, the focus of an offensive by the army and Lebanon's Hezbollah to retake the area from insurgents. Citing local sources in a statement late on Tuesday, Staffan de Mistura said the Syrian military had dropped a large number of barrel bombs on Zabadani "causing unprecedented levels of destruction and many deaths among the civilian...

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