Mortar strike kills 15 in Damascus University: state media

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A view shows debris and blood after mortar bombs landed on the canteen of Damascus University's College of Architecture March 28, 2013 in this handout photograph distributed by Syria's national news agency SANA. REUTERS-SANA-Handout
A view shows debris and blood after mortar bombs landed on the canteen of Damascus University's College of Architecture, March 28, 2013 in this handout photograph distributed by Syria's national news agency SANA. REUTERS-SANA-Handout

1 of 2. A view shows debris and blood after mortar bombs landed on the canteen of Damascus University’s College of Architecture March 28, 2013 in this handout photograph distributed by Syria’s national news agency SANA.

Credit: Reuters/SANA/Handout

By Oliver Holmes

BEIRUT | Thu Mar 28, 2013 12:19pm EDT

(Reuters) – Fifteen Syrian students were killed when rebel mortar bombs hit a Damascus University canteen on Thursday, state-run news agency SANA said, as attacks intensify in the center of the capital.

A bastion for President Bashar al-Assad’s forces, the city is a crucial prize in a two-year-old uprising that has developed into a war in which more than 70,000 people have been killed.

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    The Jihadist Jabhat al-Nusra militia is managing to secure weapons being supplied by Saudi Arabia and Qatar to rebel brigades affiliated to the Free Syrian Army, the experts say. The Obama administration considers al-Nusra a terrorist organization because of suspected links with al-Qaida.

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