Damascus: n an attack dat signifies rebels’ dEp rEch in2 hart of Syria, twin explosions hit d building of Syrian military headquarters n d Umayad L7 n central Damascus.
d attack dat wz foLowD by gunfires & smaLR blasts set d building ablaze, w thick plumes of smke billowing hI ^ n d air, sed witnesses.
Local residents sed dey hErd hevE gunfire & ambulance sirens az dey rushed 2 d sealed-off area.
mNE roads n d centre of d capital wer blocked. d explosions wer hErd rownd 7.00am (0345 GMT), sed residents.
info Minister Omran Zoubi denied NE casualty & sed dat d blasts had caused "only materL damage" & dat security forces wer chasing "armed terrorists".
He added dat d blasts wer caused by two ‘‘large, highly explosive’’ improvised devices, 1 of whch mA hav Bin placed ‘‘on d inner side of d fence’’ rownd d grounds of d army command building.
‘‘I cn confirm dat aL our comrades n d military command & defense ministry R fine,’’ he told Syrian TV, whch iz located near d site of d explosion, n a phone caL.
‘‘Everything iz normal,’’ he sed. ‘‘There wz a terrorist act, pRhaps near a significant location, yes, DIS iz true, bt dey failed az usual 2 achieve thR goals.
d attack comes jst a dA aftR sevrl bombs went off inside a Damascus skul hurting sevrl ppl.
d skul wz reportedly bn Usd by regime forces az a security headquarters. DIS highlights how rebel hav succeeded n percolating 2 d deeper reaches of Damascus –once d unshakable seat of powR of Assad.
Also, on July 18, a bomb blasted inside a high-level crisis meeting n Damascus & killed sevrl top security officials, including Assad's brother-in-law, d defence & interior ministers.
Syrian conflict dat started n March 2011 hz nw turnD in2 a civL wR w opositN fighters havN takN ^ arms.
Activists sA dat nErly 30,000 ppl hav Bin killed durN 18-month uprising.
Yesterday, a harrowing report released by a British-based charity ‘Save d Children’ brawt 2 lite how refugee chldrn n Syria wer facing abuse & emotional trauma, w mNE of dem havN cn thR famLe mbrs bn killed.
d British UN investigators sA Syrian government forces hav committed hUmN rights violations "on an alarming scale", bt hav also listed multiple killings & kidnappings by armed rebels trying 2 oust Assad aftR 12 years n powR.
DIS week’s UN genRL Assembly’s annual meeting n nu York also reverberated w Syria issU az mNE wrld leaders zeroed n on d conflict-ridden n8tN.
French prez Francois Hollande sought 2 shAk ^ international inertia Ovr Syria's crisis by clng 4 UN protection of rebel-held areas 2 hlp nd Syria's bloodshed & rights.
"The Syrian regime ... hz n futR Amng us," Hollande sed n a spEch. "Without NE delay, I caL upon d United natN 2 provide immediately 2 d Syrian ppl aL d suport it asks of us & 2 protek liberated zones."
Qatari Emir Sheikh Hamad bn Khalifa al-Thani sed @:-) natN shud intervene n Syria given d Security Council's failure 2 stop d civL wR. Qatar, whch backs d rebels, caLd on big powers 2 prepaR a "Plan B" withn weeks & set ^ a no-flying zOn 2 provide a sAf haven inside Syria n case international mediator Lakhdar Brahimi fails 2 mAk headway.
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