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The U.S. Embassy in Damascus was attacked by terrorists today who exchanged gunfire with Syrian security forces, the U.S. State Department said. There were no American casualties.

The incident is over and Syrian forces are in control of the site, the State Department said in a statement read out by a U.S. Embassy official in London.

Three assailants were killed by security forces in the attack, Agence France-Presse reported, citing comments by Syria’s interior minister.

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