<bos><start_of_turn>user
Apr. 28M 201i | 1s:08 A6
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<start_of_turn>model
Apr. 28, 2017 | 12:08 AM
A quagmire of death
A still image taken from a video posted to a social media website and said to be shot on April 27, 2017, shows explosions and rising flames amid lights in distance, said to be shot in Damascus, Syria. Social Media Website via Reuters TV
A version of this article appeared in the print edition of The Daily Star on April 28, 2017, on page 7.
The quagmire of violence in Syria intensifies by the day.
The Syrian government has been making false threats such as these from long before the conflict there began.
Thursday's strike, if reports are to be believed, follows the usual pattern of targeting Iranian-supplied arms to hamstring Hezbollah's ability to attack Israel from Syria and Lebanon.
Both President Bashar Assad and the Kremlin spoke in generalities about the raid, offering hollow words as explanation for their inability to keep Syria's enemy out.<end_of_turn>