Fighting rages in Damascus ceremony

Assad declares victory:

Fighting rages  in Damascus ceremony

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BEIRUT: President Bashar Assad’s inauguration speech heralding victory against Syrian rebels and their backers Wednesday was belied by fierce fighting and violence on half a dozen fronts in the country’s raging, multifront war. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, an anti-regime group based in Britain, said that over 3,000 people had been killed or wounded since the “farcical” presidential election took pl............