Topic: Damascus (Syria)
BEIRUT (Reuters) - Several people were killed in the two blasts on Syrian security sites in Damascus, state television said on Friday."The terrorist attacks left a number of martyrs, both civilian and military. Most of the victims were civilian," it said in ...
AMMAN (Reuters) - Syrian forces arrested Saturday opposition leader Walid al-Bunni, a veteran opponent of Baath party rule who has called for a national conference to work out a peaceful transition of power after a five-month uprising, a rights group said.Bunni, who ...
A tyre from a bus of Iranian pilgrims exploded with force near a Shiite shrine in Damascus on Thursday, killing three people, with Syria's interior minister dismissing reports of a terrorist attack. "It is not a terrorist act at all," Interior Minister ...
An explosion that wrecked an Iranian bus in Damascus on Thursday and killed three people was not a terrorist act but a tyre exploding as it was being repaired, Interior Minister Saeed Sammur said. "It is not a terrorist act at all," ...
Lebanon on Wednesday released three of seven suspects held over the 2005 murder of former prime minister Rafiq Hariri, the office of public prosecutor Said Mirza told AFP.The move comes just days before the Special Tribunal for Lebanon, set up to try ...
Bashar Assad, President of Syria, is good at the people stuff. Syria has been charged, too, with assisting the re-arming of Hizbollah after the 2006 Israeli war against Lebanon - which it does not dispute - and accused of setting up a ...
Syria blames al-Qaida inspired group for September bombing that killed 17 in DamascusSyria blamed al-Qaida inspired militants Thursday for a Damascus car bombing in September that killed 17 people.Ten men and one woman said to be members of the Fatah Islam group ...
Syrian state television on Thursday broadcast statements by men it said were Fatah al-Islam militants, in which they admitted carrying out a bomb attack in September that killed 17 people.The men included Abdul Baqi al-Hussein, described as the head of security in ...
Syrian and Lebanese political leaders have traded angry accusations after terrorist bombings in both countries fuelled fears of a new crisis between them.Saad Hariri, leader of the western-backed Sunni Future Movement, lashed out at Bashar al-Assad after the Syrian president warned that ...
A powerful car bomb ripped through a suburb of the Syrian capital, Damascus yesterday, killing 17 people and injuring 17 more. The bloodiest attack in Syria in two decades threatened further to destabilise a region already tense following the deployment of 10,000 ...
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