Two suicide car bombs detonated outside the Syrian state TV headquarters in central Damascus. The Islamic State of Iraq and the Sham reportedly bombed a Sufi shrine in Deir Azzour; another shrine in the area was bombed on Sept. 24. Rebels reportedly downed a fighter jet in Deraa. ISIS fighters clashed with Kurdish YPG fighters in Raqqah. Gunmen kidnapped six Red Cross workers and a local volunteer in Idlib. The Syrian Red Crescent said it has evacuated at least 1,500 people from the Damascus rebel-held suburb of Moadamiyet al-Sham. The president of the Syrian National Council, the largest bloc in the Syrian National Coalition, said his group will shun the proposed Geneva II peace talks; the talks have been tentatively postponed from October to November.
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