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The news was reported by Dimashq Now whose Facebook post on the story generated significantly more comments than usual - several of them sarcastic.

At least three people had died in east Aleppo, as well as seven in Arada, a town in the south-west of Aleppo province, and another six in Reef Dimashq province, the group said.

On Friday, the militants' "Dimashq State" media office released photographs depicting tanks, trucks and weapons purportedly taken as "bounty" from Syrian army units.

On Monday, Mr. Megrahi’s brother, Abel Nasser, spoke to reporters outside the villa, in the posh Dimashq neighborhood.