Bombs rock Syrian capital, two army posts hit.
Two
bombs went off near the Syrian military’s joint chiefs of staff’s
offices in central Damascus on Sunday, state television said, Today’s Zaman reported
The explosions struck the Abu Rumaneh district of the Syrian capital, wounding four people, state TV said.
Government officials said the explosion appeared to target a building under construction near the offices of the military’s joint chiefs of staff.
The building, which was empty at the time of the blast, is a base for army officers who guard the joint chiefs of staff offices, which are located some 200 meters away. The officials say the wounded were army officers. No other details were immediately available
Syrian opposition hit back at Assad’s air power
On Saturday, opposition forces seized an air defense facility and attacked a military airport in eastern Syria, a monitoring group said, hitting back at an air force which Assad is increasingly relying on to crush his opponents.
The attacks in eastern oil-producing Deir al-Zor province follow opposition strikes against military airports in the Aleppo and Idlib areas, close to the border with Turkey.
Assad, battling a 17-month-old uprising in which 20,000 people have been killed, has lost control of rural areas in northern, eastern and southern regions and has resorted to helicopter gunships and fighter jets to subdue his foes.
The aerial bombardment has driven fresh waves of refugees into neighboring countries, reviving Turkish calls for “safe zones” to be set up on Syrian territory — appeals ignored by a divided UN Security Council and by Western powers reluctant to commit the military forces needed to secure such zones.
Opposition forces in Deir al-Zor overran an air defense building, taking at least 16 captives and seizing an unknown number of anti-aircraft rockets, said Rami Abdulrahman of the British-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights.Read More
The explosions struck the Abu Rumaneh district of the Syrian capital, wounding four people, state TV said.
Government officials said the explosion appeared to target a building under construction near the offices of the military’s joint chiefs of staff.
The building, which was empty at the time of the blast, is a base for army officers who guard the joint chiefs of staff offices, which are located some 200 meters away. The officials say the wounded were army officers. No other details were immediately available
Syrian opposition hit back at Assad’s air power
On Saturday, opposition forces seized an air defense facility and attacked a military airport in eastern Syria, a monitoring group said, hitting back at an air force which Assad is increasingly relying on to crush his opponents.
The attacks in eastern oil-producing Deir al-Zor province follow opposition strikes against military airports in the Aleppo and Idlib areas, close to the border with Turkey.
Assad, battling a 17-month-old uprising in which 20,000 people have been killed, has lost control of rural areas in northern, eastern and southern regions and has resorted to helicopter gunships and fighter jets to subdue his foes.
The aerial bombardment has driven fresh waves of refugees into neighboring countries, reviving Turkish calls for “safe zones” to be set up on Syrian territory — appeals ignored by a divided UN Security Council and by Western powers reluctant to commit the military forces needed to secure such zones.
Opposition forces in Deir al-Zor overran an air defense building, taking at least 16 captives and seizing an unknown number of anti-aircraft rockets, said Rami Abdulrahman of the British-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights.Read More
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