Dispatches From Damascus: A Bomb in the Old City
Andrew Sheehan
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Posted 01.09.2013
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The Sunday before last, a bomb exploded in Bab Touma Square in the middle of the morning, killing 13 people and injuring several others. While bombings of government targets and public spaces have become increasingly common over the last few months, this attack constituted the first of its kind in the old city since Syria's political crisis began in March last year.