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Fighting escalates in Syria with bombings, airstrikes

Suicide attacks kill 22; army presses in north

DAMASCUS — Syrian troops stepped up an offensive against rebels in the north on Wednesday, following explosions targeting security forces and a university campus that killed more than 100 people in two days.

Powerful suicide car bombs that killed about two dozen people in Idlib marked another escalation in the fight for control of northern Syria, a key battlefield in the country’s civil war. The day before, massive blasts heavily damaged the main university in the commercial hub of Aleppo, killing 87 people and wounding scores of others.

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Where is the American environmental lobby and the EPA on this? These bombs cause air pollution which leads to more Global Warming. Apparently only Americans are supposed to cut back on air pollutants.