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Twenty dead in bombs at security HQs in Syria's Idlib


    BEIRUT (Reuters) - More than 20 people were killed, the majority of them members of the security forces, when two bombs detonated near state intelligence buildings on Monday in the northern city of Idlib, a rights activists said.

    "The bombs exploded next to the Air Force Intelligence headquarters and the Military Intelligence building," Rami Abdelrahman, head of the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, said.

    (Reporting by Oliver Holmes and Erika Solomon; Editing by Ed Cropley)