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'I saw the fire, then heard the blast': Deraa's fields peppered with explosives from Syria's civil war

In a former quarry surrounded by farmland outside the city of Deraa in southern Syria, experts are preparing to detonate an unexploded Russian missile left over from the war. A shepherd discovered it a few days earlier in a nearby field. Everything involving the detonation is carefully calculated: the missile's size and its location above ground help determine that the blast radius will be 250…

'I saw the fire, then heard the blast': Deraa's fields peppered with explosives from Syria's civil war

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