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Inside Syrian rebel stronghold: 'It is as if the city is on mute'

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By Charlene Gubash, NBC News DOUMA, Syria -- Surrounded by ancient olive groves, Douma is just ten miles from Damascus but it feels like another world. It is a city under occupation. In Damascus, vehicles slow to a halt due to traffic jams. In Douma, there is no traffic.

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UN monitors in Syria evacuated from town »

A team of international observers was evacuated on Wednesday from a tense town in northern Syria a day after their convoy was hit by a roadside bomb, a UN spokesman said.

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Syrian's Bashar al-Assad said Wednesday that countries trying to "sow chaos" in Syria could be infected with it themselves