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Monday, March 25, 2013

Government: the death toll of the Damascus mosque blast so 42 people

Beirut (Reuters)-An explosion at a mosque in the capital of Syria, Damascus, Thursday killed at least 42 people, including a senior pro-Government cleric, and wounded 84 others, Syria Ministry of Health said.

State television and the anti-Government activists previously reported 15 dead, reports Reuters.

The television said one suicide blast struck a Mosque in Faith terrorist Center of Damascus, and Mohammed al-Buti, the priest of ancient Ummayyad Mosque, is one of who died.

Buti, a cleric who is reviled by the Government-appointed opposition movement, delivering the prayer sermon Syria Friday every week on television the Government. (AK)



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Friday, March 8, 2013

31 people were killed by bomb blast in Damascus

Damascus (Reuters)-a bomb exploded near the Office of the Baath Party in Central Damascus on Thursday, killing at least 31 people, injuring dozens of people and rattled the building, said the media and monitoring group.

The explosion on Thursday afternoon in the middle of the town raises a thick smoke of soaring, occurred when opposition Syria meet in Cairo to discuss the leadership proposal to conduct negotiations with the Government of Syria.

Immediately after the explosion, a nearby military base was hit by mortar attacks, government television said, without elaborating further.

The official SANA News Agency Announces "many civilians were killed or injured in what he termed the" troris attacks ", while Obsevatorium Syria for human rights referred to the death toll of 31 people and dozens of others injured.

Pictures of bloodied corpses lying on the ground and burning vehicles delivered the official television network Al-Ekhbariya, who said children were among those injured, when an explosion occurred near a school in the Mazraa district.

A police officer present told AFP the car bomb exploded in the Garden November 16, near masjid Al-Iman, where the offices of the Baath party headquarters is located.

Sirens-ambulance sirens and the sound of machine gun fire were heard at the time.

Russia news agencies reported the Windows of the Embassy of Russia in Damasku rupture due to the blast but there were no injuries to staff.

The explosion was the more urgent National Coalition meeting in Cairo where the talk-talk one word delegation concentrated on the Group's Chairman bid for negotiating directly with the Government of Syria.

"The Agenda is long and among the issues that will be discussed are propositions Ahmed al-Khatib Muaz," said Khaled Nasser told AFP.

The Coalition Chairman Khatib has proposed talks with the Government of President Bashar al-Assad that "they are not blood-stained hands"--calling the Vice President Faruq al-Sharaa as a possible leader who was appointed to it.

The Government has said it is ready for Bashar to negotiate with the opposition but without any preconditions.

The initiative was welcomed by the Khatib of the Arab League and the United States as well as two main ally Syria, Iran and Russia.

(H-RN/B002)



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Thursday, March 7, 2013

Mortars exploded there: near the Presidential Palace in Damascus

Damascus (Reuters)-Two mortar shells fired rebel forces exploded near the Presidential Palace in Damascus Tuesday Tishreen causing some damage but no casualties, State media said.

Bullets-Bullets mortar "landed near the southern wall of the Palace, only damages Tishreen material", the Government news agency said quoting an official statement and THERE are unnamed, reports AFP.

Syria Liberation Army rebels claimed responsibility for the attack.

According to SANA, bullet-bullet struck one location in the vicinity of Al-Mouwassat and the children's HOSPITAL in Damascus, "there are no survivors".

Hospitals were located a few hundred meters from the Tishreen used to receive important officials who visited but not the residence of President Bashar al-Assad.

This is the first time Syria authorities reported bullet-bullet fell near the Presidential Palace.

Military Liberation Army Council announced on Facebook that Syria "Liberation Army had fired mortars into the Palace-mortar Tishreen, has been on the mark".

Tishreen is one of three such Palace in Damascus. The other two are the people's Palace on Mount Qassioun Rawda Palace in the North and the executive offices. (RN/R013)



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Friday, February 22, 2013

The explosion in Damascus, the lukai some people

the bomb exploded in the path of Arnous in Damascus.
Damascus (Reuters)-an explosive hidden under a car exploded on Sunday (10/2) of one road in the Centre of the capital of Syria, Damascus, and hurt a lot of people, so the official Syria news agency report, there.

THERE the bomb was exploded in reporting The Arnous at Damascus middle, and added the explosions make many people injured but no fatalities.

In other districts of Damascus, a suicide bomber wearing a belt containing explosives blew herself up in the Rukkin Addien, and wounding four people, said THERE as quoted Xinhua--Afp, monitored here on Monday morning.

Meanwhile, an opposition group based in the United Kingdom--Syria Observatory for human rights said clashes raged again on Sunday on the edge of Damascus, Jobar. Clashes also took place in Daraya, Zamalka and Qaboun--who three times hit by air strikes.

The clash in the eastern suburbs of Damascus has raged since last week, when the guerrillas launched an attack in order to extinguish the resolve of Government soldiers--are still firmly controlled the capital city of Syria.

On Saturday, two people were killed when a bomb exploded on the outskirts of the capital of Syria, Damascus, according to local media reports. The bomb exploded in the field As-Suyouf in the eastern suburbs of Damascus, Jaramana, says pro-Government radio Sham FM. as many as four more people were also injured, he said.

Bombings have become a daily occurrence throughout Syria, which has been hit by the prolonged conflict.

As many as 5,000 residents to leave their country Syria every day, to find a safe haven in neighboring countries, said the UN refugee agency, Friday.

Since the conflict erupted two years ago, more than 787.000 people registered as refugees or Syria is waiting for the process in the region--particularly in Lebanon, Iraq, Jordan and Turkey, he said.

Clean water shortage worsened and the supply sometimes contaminated in the Arab countries, so the kids are exposed to disease-prone, says the UNITED NATIONS Fund for children (UNICEF), Friday.

The citizens of Syria also has begun to trouble to obtain the drug as a result of the sanctions imposed on their country's West. Most States lack drug sellers will be even worse due to the presence of a non-quick and decent resolution to restart the drug factory operations, most of which are located in the province of Aleppo, northern Syria, and Rif Damascus.

Health Minister Saad Nayef Al-Syria has said economic sanctions imposed on Syria is very detrimental to the country's health sector.

He revealed the 32 hospitals nationwide are now defunct, and six pharmaceutical laboratories have been damaged and 68 more total is still operating with a capacity of 50 percent.

But he denied reports about the presence of many drugs are in the local market, and only hinted at the existence of difficulties for carrying drugs.

(C003)



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