<blockquote>“Hardly a day goes by when our senses are not bludgeoned by some new outbreak of terrorism in the Middle East.  Despite our best efforts at making and keeping the peace, political, economic, and religious tensions often lead to unrest, violence, and riots.”
<p style="text-align: right;">-Jim Bakker in “Prosperity and the Coming Apocalypse”</p>
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Fighting in Syria has killed around 100 people and cut off water to large parts of the city of Aleppo.

In addition, a rocket fired from western Syria crossed the Iraqi border killing a child and wounding others in what the local officials say is one of the worst cross-border incidents since the beginning of the Syrian Civil War.

The water main to most of the city was ruptured as government forces attempted to take back the Hanano barracks which rebels had seized on Friday. The city, the largest in the country, is now suffering from major shortages of drinking water. Before the fighting began, the city had a population of three million.

Government forces have also shelled a southern part of Damascus that has been home to mostly Palestinians settlers.

UN envoy Lakhdar Brahimi is scheduled to visit the region but BBC correspondents on the ground say that diplomatic efforts have absolutely no credibility with the troops fighting against the government.