Syria talks challenged as suicide blasts kill dozens
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By Rana Moussaoui with Ben Simon in Geneva (AFP) 6 hours ago in World
UN efforts to launch a new round of Syria peace talks sputtered Saturday as suicide attacks killed dozens of people, with the death toll from two days of violence nearing 100.
The blasts targeting two security service bases in Homs, Syria's third city, killed a top intelligence chief and close confidant of President Bashar al-Assad, and were claimed by former Al-Qaeda affiliate Fateh al-Sham Front.
The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said in all 42 people were killed, but the provincial governor put the figure at 30 dead.
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