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A car bombing at a Makhachkala restaurant injured nine people in Dagestan, including two police officers. Sources claim that Russia has stepped up deliveries of military equipment to Syria to help the Assad regime capitalize on recent rebel infighting. Speaking in Moscow, Syria's foreign minister said his government was ready to cooperate with the Syrian opposition in combating terrorism and would consider prisoner exchanges, and that Russia's foreign minister would help facilitate the establishment of "a zero hour for a ceasefire and the cessation of military operations" in Aleppo city.