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Bombings, clashes continue in Syria |
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English.news.cn   2012-09-03 06:18:07 |               |
DAMASCUS, Sept. 2 (Xinhua) -- Bombings and urban clashes continued across Syria Sunday,showing no sign of abatement and further blurring the prospect of a foreseeable solution in the conflict-torn Arab state.Two explosive devices went off Sunday some 200 meters away from the office of theSyrian military's joint chiefs of staff in the capital Damascus, injuring four army personnel, sources and media reports said.The blast, though small in scope, is considered as a strong blow to theSyrian leadership as it went off in a sensitive and heavily fortified area ringed with security checkpoints and blast walls.Sunday's blast followed three car bomb blasts Saturday in Damascus and theeastern Deir al-Zour province, in which at least 17 people were killed.Armed rebels seem to have opted to carry out such brazen blasts as a direct showdown with the military forces.The state-run SANA newsagency said the Syrian troops have continued hunting the armed insurgent groups in Deir al-Zour, killing or injuring scores of them.The government troops also killed an undisclosed number of armedgroups in the southern province of Daraa, said SANA.Syria's state TV also claimed that government forces had repelled an attack on the Rasm al-Abboud air base near Aleppo and showed footage of capturedguns and vehicles.Meanwhile, the opposition Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said clashes and chaos have continued in the northern province of Aleppo, central Hama and suburbs ofDamascus. It said 14 people were killed during the military showdown in the Damascus suburb of Arbeen.The Local Coordination Committees (LCC), another activists' network, said as many as 127 people werekilled Sunday in different areas of Syria. It also reported violence in a number of suburbs around Damascus.Activists' groups have reportedly said that armed rebels in Deir al-Zour captured Saturday...