Helicopter gunships strafe Syria's Aleppo: activists

Aleppo : Syria | Jul 27, 2012 at 2:59 AM PDT

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A Free Syrian Army fighter looks out from the window of the burnt Shaar district police station in the northern Syrian city of Aleppo after it was overrun by rebel fighters on July 25, 2012. Troops fired from helicopter gunships on several neighbourhoods of Syria's second city Aleppo on Friday, as the... FULL ARTICLE AT The Daily Star

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