Inside Syrian Rebels' Bomb Factory

The World
Syria remains locked in a full-on civil war. Rebels opposed to President Bashar al-Assad lack heavy weapons. So they're trying to compensate with home-made bombs, what American forces in Iraq would have called improvised explosive devices or IEDs. The BBC's James Reynolds has just been to a rebel bomb factory in Turkey, just across the border from Syria. Reynolds says these are small home-made devices, intended for use against the Syrian army.
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