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It's Monday, 9 December. Welcome to the PDB afternoon bulletin. I'm Mike Baker this week in

the Middle East. Your eyes and ears on the world stage. All right, let's get briefed.

First, Israel and the U.S. have unleashed airstrikes across Syria in the wake of the fall of the

Assad regime on Sunday, targeting terrorist organizations

and critical weapons infrastructure at risk of falling into rebel hands.

Then an update on the violence in Haiti, where 184 people were killed in a brutal massacre

over the weekend by a gang leader, get this, acting on the advice of a voodoo priest.

But first, our afternoon spotlight. We'll begin with a fallout in Syria, where Israel and the

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