BEIRUT (Reuters) - Syria's army said on Sunday it had stepped up air strikes and retaken villages in a new offensive on Islamist insurgents in areas close to President Bashar al Assad's ancestral homeland in the northeastern coastal province of Latakia.









Source: [url=http://feeds.reuters.com/~r/Reuters/worldNews/~3/8_bUiSr1xw4/story01.htm]Syria's army says battles rebels near president's homeland[/url]


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