Thursday, October 11, 2012

Damascus bombing

  • Suicide bombers hit Syria security complex: rebels

    AMMAN (Reuters) - Rebel suicide bombers struck overnight at an Air Force Intelligence compound on the edge of the Syrian capital Damascus, killing or wounding at least 100 people, insurgents and activists said on Tuesday. The militant Islamist group ...

    www.reuters.com

  • 'Dozens' Dead in Twin Damascus Bombings

    Twin attacks by suicide bombers on a Syrian Air Force compound near Damascus killed dozens of people Oct. 8, activists said yesterday, adding that it feared for the safety of hundreds of prisoners being held there.

    www.turkishweekly.net

  • Damascus Bombs Hit Syrian Security Forces

    BEIRUT—Several bombs went off Tuesday inside a school in Damascus that activists say was being used by regime forces as a security headquarters.

    online.wsj.com

  • UPDATE 2-Suicide bombers hit Syria security complex-rebels

    AMMAN Oct 9 (Reuters) - Rebel suicide bombers struck overnight at an Air Force Intelligence compound on the edge of the Syrian capital Damascus overnight, killing or wounding at least 100 people, insurgents and activists said on Tuesday. The militant ...

    www.reuters.com

  • Suicide bombers target Syrian military headquarters in Damascus

    BEIRUT - Suicide bombers targeted the main Syrian military headquarters in the heart of Damascus on Wednesday in the most significant attack in the capital in more than two months, triggering scenes of panic and widespread gunfire in which a reporter ...

    www.washingtonpost.com

  • UN chief slams terrorist bombings in Syrian capital

    UNITED NATIONS, Oct. 9 (Xinhua) - UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon on Tuesday strongly condemned the terrorist bombings in Damascus Monday evening, saying that "the spiral of violence in Syria is creating a fertile ground for terrorism and criminal ...

    www.nzweek.com

  • Damascus offensive: a race to the bottom [The Daily Star, Beirut, Lebanon]

    The destination for these items is Damascus, where rebels fighting the regime of Bashar Assad are planning to use them for homemade bombs as part of a new offensive to take the capital. He says that after learning from "mistakes" in Aleppo, a new ...

    www.equities.com

  • Qaeda-Linked Group Claims Responsibility for Syrian Blasts

    BEIRUT, Lebanon - A jihadist insurgent group that Western intelligence officials have linked to Al Qaeda claimed responsibility on Tuesday for a multiple bombing by suicide attackers who struck an intelligence compound on the outskirts of Damascus ...

    www.nytimes.com

  • Syria Protests Turkey's 'Hostile' Plane Interception

    The Syrian foreign ministry said Thursday that the interception of the plane as it was flying from Moscow to Damascus was "another sign of the hostile polices" of the Turkish government.

    blogs.voanews.com

  • Syria, Turkey Trade Fire; Blast Hits Damascus Police

    A bomb in the Damascus police headquarters' parking lot caused the powerful blast that killed a police officer, said an official at the interior ministry.

    online.wsj.com

  • Regime bombing of Syrian town kills at least 12

    DAMASCUS, Syria (AP) - The Syrian foreign minister accused the U.S. and its allies of stoking "terrorism" in his country, delivering an uncompromising message before the United Nations on Monday as fighting spread in a centerpiece of Syria's cultural ...

    www.wivb.com

  • Rebel bombs target government security building in Damascus

    BEIRUT (Reuters) - Bombs planted by rebels exploded at a school building occupied by pro-government militias in Damascus on Tuesday and world leaders weighed Syria's deepening crisis at a U.N. General Assembly meeting, but without proposals to ...

    www.cnbc.com

  • Qaeda-Linked Group Claims Responsibility for Blasts on Edge of Damascus

    A jihadist insurgent group that Western intelligence officials have linked to Al Qaeda said Tuesday that its suicide bombers struck an intelligence compound on the outskirts of Damascus overnight. It was the second major attack in about a week claimed ...

    www.post-gazette.com

  • Syria suicide bomber attacks intelligence compound

    A Sunni extremist group is claiming responsibility after a suicide attacker detonated a car bomb near a compound of the Syrian intelligence service on the outskirts of Damascus on Monday. Jabhat al-Nusra claimed responsibility on Tuesday for an attack ...

    www.cbc.ca

  • Damascus rocked by 'terrorist' car bomb

    A car bomb detonated in a central Damascus car park near police headquarters on Sunday, killing one policeman, as mortar shells again struck a Turkish village near the border, prompting a fresh round of Turkish retaliation.

    www.france24.com

  • Al-Qaeda-Linked Group Kills 100 In Suicide Attacks In Damascus

    A group with links to al-Qaeda said they struck President Bashar al-Assad's Air Force Intelligence compound in Damascus in a pair of suicide bomber blasts, one of which was in an ambulance loaded with bombs, Agence France Presse reported.

    www.ibtimes.com

  • Damascus bombing targets military base

    Bombs planted by rebels have exploded at a school building occupied by security forces and pro-government militias in Damascus, in yet another strike near the centre of President Bashar al-Assad's power. The school's director told state television that ...

    www.aljazeera.com

  • FSA Strike on Syrian Military HQ Sparks Retribution by Regime

    I arrived to a different Damascus from the one I had seen a month ago. The distant sound of gunfire and shelling had faded, but locals assured me that clashes between opposition and regime forces continued, albeit sporadically, in the city's outlying ...

    www.al-monitor.com

  • Report: Assad Ordered Bomb Attacks in Damascus

    The regime of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad was behind a pair of car bomb attacks which killed 55 people outside a military intelligence complex in the Qazzaz area of Damascus on May 10, newly-leaked documents obtained by Al Arabiya and published ...

    www.israelnationalnews.com

  • Scores Killed as Car Bombs Strike Syria

    December 2011: Suicide bombings kill 44 people outside a Damascus intelligence compound; January 2012: A suicide blast kills 25 people, many of them police, at a Damascus intersection; February 2012: Twin explosions in Aleppo kill 28 people; March ...

    www.voanews.com

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