New Delhi, July 17 -- DAMASCUS, Syria - The dense smoke still lingered over the Qanawat district by sunrise, billowing from the skeletal ruins of the Syrian Defence Ministry building. Hours earlier, Israeli fighter jets had unleashed a barrage of airstrikes on central Damascus, striking near the Presidential Palace and igniting global outrage over what Syrian officials described as an [.]

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