The neighbors had never heard anything like it.
The sudden roar of attack helicopters woke up the families living in a pastoral patch of northwestern Syria after midnight. They huddled in basements, storerooms and bedrooms.
"What’s happening, Dad?” a neighbor, Abu Omar, recalled his son asking.
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