
Death drops from sky in Syria’s Al-Bab
Al-Bab, Syria (AFP) Sept 16, 2012 - Shrapnel peppers the blood-spattered walls of the Al-Bab home where two bombs dropped from a Syrian warplane in the middle of the night wiped out Abu Nasser's family.
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