A blast ripped through central Damascus near a hotel and a police station on Monday, injuring at least four people.
Syrian President Bashar al-Assad talks to officials during a tour in the Baba Amr neighbourhood of Homs Photo: REUTERS
By Our Foreign Staff
10:36AM BST 02 Apr 2012
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"A bomb exploded loudly near the Hotel Kinda" in Marja neighbourhood in the centre of the capital, the official Syrian television station Al-Ikhbariya said.
"Four people were slightly hurt and shops damaged," it added.
Witnesses said the explosion occurred near a police station in Marja and that the area had been cordoned off by security forces. Ambulances were seen at the site of the blast.
Bombings have hit Syria's major cities in recent months, provoking mounting concern that Al-Qaeda has taken advantage of the uprising against President Bashar al-Assad.
Violence continued in Syria Monday. The Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said government forces killed two people in arrest raids in the northern Idlib province. In the south, rebels killed two soldiers in attacks on checkpoints, the group said.
In the northern city of Aleppo, explosives stashed in a kiosk blew up, killing one person.
Activists' claims could not be independently verified. The Syrian government rarely comments on specific incidents and bars most media from working inside the country.
According to UN estimates, more than 9,000 people have died in the regime's crackdown on the uprising that began in March last year, inspired by Arab Spring protests that toppled long-time dictators in Tunisia and Egypt.
Russia said on Monday that the "Friends of Syria" meeting in Istanbul at the weekend contradicted the objective of reaching a peaceful settlement that could end more than a year of bloodshed.
"The promises and intentions to deliver direct military and logistical support to the armed... opposition that were voiced in Istanbul unquestionably contradict the goals of a peaceful settlement to the civil conflict in Syria," the foreign ministry said in a statement.
Western and Arab nations called Sunday for Syrian President Assad to be set a deadline to meet the terms of a peace plan advanced by international mediator Kofi Annan. As the joint UN-Arab League envoy, Annan has been pushing for a cease-fire to allow all sides to discuss a political solution and will brief the UN Security Council on Monday.
The meeting also recognised the opposition Syrian National Council (SNC) as the "legitimate representative" of all Syrians and the "leading interlocutor for the opposition with the international community."
The SNC then announced plans to pay the salaries of Free Syrian Army (FSA) fighters while nations such as Saudi Arabia and Qatar agreed to pay several million dollars to fund the FSA.
Russia boycotted the conference and said Monday that it had turned out to be as "one-sided" as Moscow had feared.
"Unfortunately, the meeting in Istanbul was as one-sided" as previous such gatherings, the foreign ministry statement said.
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cowgirlinthesand
59 minutes ago
#1 Photo of Assad reads
in Arabic Bab Omar so please give us an accurate photo.
#2 The idea that the
Syrian economy "may" suffer from the latest copy cat bomb is funny.
My dear (Syrian Electronic Army) Syria’s economy is already finished and so is
future tourism. Who wants to take their sweet wife and children to such a scary
place? And now that we have seen what the authorities are capable of I sure
wont be taking my grandchildren there either.
drunkinftl
Today 07:57 PM
Hague is truly an evil goblin
Osama Khateeb
Today 12:39 PM
All the bombings were done by Assad's loyalists to terroize the people of Syria. Revolution will go on till it becomes a success. No way back !
We are so determined. After all this bloodshed syrians will not accept to be ruled by a corrupted regime. FSA is the soldiers who refused to obay Assad's orders to shoot their brother syrians. They endangerd their lives and defected. They are the only hope for the syrians and they must be armed by friends of the Syrian people. I'm sure that they can free their comrades from Assad's criminal fist. A lot of the regime soldiers like to defect but they cannot!
______ AbuAbdAllah_Muhammad_IbnMusa
Today 05:33 PM
I wonder how many women got executed in Saudi Arabia today? I thought Islam was supposed to teach you something, not stop you from thinking altogether!
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SyrianLancer
Today 05:22 PM
Sorry it is not personal... but in your case "Osama" is not a coincidnece...
Non of the bombings were done by the state... becasue each of these bombings cause greate fear among population and damages the economy.. So simply the State cannot committ suicide.. beside that, I feel a bit silly to explain something so obvious...
You have a completely lost case here and you are fooling no one; you can see for yourself.. but stay around for entertainment..
ram2009
Today 02:38 PM
Is this part of Hague's warning to Al Assad?
The so-called FSA is known to consist of mainly Libyan Judaeo-Islamists (led by the omnipresent Al CIAda guy, Belhadj), Qataris, Saudi Wahabbis, Lebanese (from Tripoli mainly) and Sunnis from Iraq. The fact that they want Syria to suffer as much material damage as possible is understandable. I cannot believe that any Syrian would want any such for their kith and kin.
Why Saudi Arabia and Qatar want to destroy this society which sets a bad example to their women folk is obvious.
nidjo
Today 02:16 PM
Yes that's right, less than 10% of the Syrian population with foreign guns will take control of the country .....like in Libya....you are deluded my friend. Stop attacking the army from civilian areas then they will not blow up your houses....simples ! Do you think the yanks and the UK are your friends ?.....God help you .......you are a fool and a traitor, causing chaos in your country for a handful of Zionist silver !
AbuAbdAllah_Muhammad_IbnMusa
Today 01:25 PM
Blind sheep in religion, blind sheep in war.
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bukowski
Today 01:23 PM
I hope these FSA Islamist savages are not further armed by anybody.
gabbo
Today 12:49 PM
'The only hope for Syrians'.....
Does that include the 90,000 Christians ethnically cleansed from Homs and Aleppo by your 'brother Syrian' FSA?
____________ cowgirlinthesand
38 minutes ago
Last
time I checked the poor Syrian Christians were lumped in with the poor Syrian
Muslims and they all fled together if not shot on their way out. Knock off your propaganda BS and grow up. Have you no shame?
wilfthebison
Today 12:13 PM
Why are we supporting an Islamist take over in Syria?
______ warmingmyth
Today 07:12 PM
The underlying aim is to weaken and neutralise Syria and using the Islamists is the easiest way to do that. It has nothing to do with concern for the Syrian people.
____________ cowgirlinthesand
29 minutes ago
No one in
the west seams to be super concerned with the Syrian people on either side of the
conflict. You got that right. President Bush was trigger happy and made grand
mistakes and now President Obama is worried about getting reelected and is so afraid
of making a mistake that he is frozen in place. Iran and Russia are going to
come out the big winners and the world will have to mop it all up sooner or
later.
______ nidjo
Today 02:18 PM
Next stop Iran.....and and a one world state, how free do you think we will be in this new world ?
______ knowitall
Today 02:04 PM
Because it takes the spotlight off Israel!
____________ nidjo
Today 02:19 PM
au contraire, everyone knows who is pulling the strings ...the yanks must do as their masters tell them.
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