Syria

Syrian troops backed by tanks are said to have killed 50 people in an assault on the city of Deir al Zor. Soldiers killed 13 more people in an attack in Houla Plain, near Homs.

Bill Roggio is a Senior Fellow at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies and the Editor of FDD's Long War Journal.

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