Clashes between government troops and rebels raged Thursday in opposition bastions of besieged Aleppo as President Bashar Assad's key state backer Iran hosted a gathering of allies for talks on how to end the conflict.
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26 July, 2012 -- Defected Assad confidant seeks Syrian unity
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26 August, 2012 -- Mass burials in Damascus town amid massacre report
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