FOXNews.com: Fighting precedes scheduled beginning of Syria truce

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Fighting precedes scheduled beginning of Syria truce Oct 26th 2012, 09:31 Published October 26, 2012 Associated Press Oct. 24, 2012 photo: A Free Syrian Army fighter watches over an enemy position as rebel fighters belonging to the Liwa Al Tawhid group carry out a military operation at the Moaskar front line, one of the battlefields in the Karmal Jabl neighborhood, in Aleppo, Syria.AP BEIRUT –  Activists say heavy fighting has preceded the dawn start of a proposed truce in Syria's bloody 19-month civil war. Battles were still in progress at daybreak Friday, the beginning of a four-day Muslim holiday that was to coincide with the cease-fire. Mediator Lakhdar Brahimi proposed the truce. The Syrian regime accepted it but said it would respond to rebel attacks. Some rebel groups said they would abide by the cease-fire. The Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, which relies on a network of activists, says the latest clashes took place in the central province of Homs, in Deir el-Zour in the country's east and in the city of Aleppo. At least four rebels were killed and six soldiers were wounded in overnight fighting, the Observatory said.

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