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Syria conflict: warplanes 'strike Damascus' - as it happened

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Paul Owen
guardian.co.uk, Wednesday 3 April 2013 09.10 BST
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An image taken from video obtained from Shaam News Network, which has been authenticated based on its contents and other Associated Press reporting, shows smoke from heavy shelling in the Jobar neighbourhood in north Damascus on 2 April. Syrian government warplanes were reported to have carried out air strikes on the capital on Wednesday morning. Photograph: Anonymous/AP


9.10am BST

Summary Good morning and welcome to today’s Middle East live blog. Here are the headlines:


Syria

• The Local Co-ordination Committees, a Syrian opposition group, reported air strikes in the Damascus suburb of Mleha and artillery shelling in Daraa province and Homs province this morning. The group said 113 people were killed in the Syrian conflict yesterday, including 58 in the capital. The Syrian Network for Human Rights, another activist group, said 104 people had been killed in fighting across the country yesterday, 65 of them in Damascus and the surrounding area. These reports cannot be verified because most media are banned from Syria.

• Hundreds of Europeans have travelled to Syria since the start of the civil war to fight against President Bashar al-Assad, the most comprehensive study of European foreign fighters to date has found. A year-long survey by King's College of more than two hundred martyrdom posts on jihadist-linked websites and hundreds of Arab and western press reports found that up to 600 individuals from 14 countries including the UK, Austria, Spain, Sweden and Germany, have taken part in the conflict since it began in 2011. The largest contingent, the study found, came from the UK with estimates of fighters running between 28-134. But European fighters made up only between 7% and 11% of the foreign contingent in Syria, which ranged between 2,000 and 5,500 people – itself a relatively small number of combatants.

• The Israeli military said last night that its tanks had fired into Syria in response to shots fired from Syria at an Israeli army jeep in the Golan Heights, which is occupied by Israel, the New York Times reports.


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Read more: http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/middle-east-live/2013/apr/03/syria-conflict-warplanes-strike-damascus-live-updates


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