AZAZ, Syria (Reuters) - Rebels battled on Thursday to seize an air base in northern Syria, part of a campaign to limit the air power that has given President Bashar al-Assad the upper hand.
More than 60,000 people have been killed in the 21-month-old uprising and civil war, the United Nations said this week, sharply raising the death toll in a conflict that shows no sign of ending.
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