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CAIRO (MCT) — Rocket-propelled grenades reportedly struck a Damascus office of Syrian President Bashar Assad’s Baath Party before dawn Sunday in the first attack of its kind in the capital since an anti-government uprising began last spring.

Few details were available on the unusually brazen attack, responsibility for which was claimed by a group of military defectors calling itself the Free Syrian Army.

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