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JERUSALEM: A senior Israeli official said on Saturday that Syrian President Bashar al-Assad retains control of Syria's reputed chemical weapons and they are not sought by his Hezbollah guerrilla allies in neighbouring Lebanon.Defence Ministry strategist Amos Gilad spoke after another Israeli official disclosed that Israel had sent warplanes on Friday to attack a Hezbollah-bound missile shipment in Syria, where Assad is battling a more than two-year-old insurgency.Israel has long made clear it is prepared to resort to force to prevent advanced Syrian weapons reaching Hezbollah. In late January, regional sources said Israel destroyed a convoy carrying Syrian anti-aircraft missiles to Hezbollah."Syria has large amounts of chemical weaponry and missiles. Everything there is under of Assad government control," Gilad said in a speech."Hezbollah does not have chemical weaponry. We have ways of knowing. They are not keen to take weaponry like this, preferring systems that can cover all of the country ...
BEIRUT: Hundreds of families were fleeing Sunni districts of the Syrian city of Banias on Saturday, fearing new attacks after a "massacre" in a nearby Sunni village, a watchdog said."Hundreds of families are fleeing Sunni neighbourhoods in Banias in fear of a new massacre," Syrian Observatory for Human Rights director Rami Abdel Rahman told AFP.Copyright AFP (Agence France-Presse), 2013 ...
BAGHDAD: A policeman in Baghdad knows the bomb detector he uses is fake, and will do virtually nothing to save anyone's life, but he has his orders."If I were given a mop and told that it detects bombs in cars, I would still do it without any hesitation," he told AFP, asking not to be identified."The device is a 100-percent failure and we know that, but it is imposed on us; we cannot disobey direct ...
DAMASCUS: Syria's President Bashar al-Assad made a rare public visit on Wednesday to an electrical plant in central Damascus to mark Labour Day, the presidency's official Facebook page said."President Assad is now visiting the Umayyad electrical plant in Tishreen Garden in Damascus and congratulates its workers and Syria's workers on their holiday," the Facebook page said.It published a picture of the president addressing a crowd of workers, some of them wearing or holding hard hats."Terrorists ...
BAGHDAD: A car bomb in the east of the Iraqi capital killed three people and wounded at least 10 on Wednesday, a police colonel and a medical official said.The bomb, which exploded in Al-Husseiniyah at about 7:30 am (0430 GMT), came after a wave of violence killed more than 240 people over seven days at the end of April, raising fears of a return to sectarian violence that left tens of thousands dead.Violence in Iraq ...
UNITED NATIONS: The Syrian government on Tuesday maintained a block on giving UN experts unconditional access to investigate claims that chemical weapons have been used in the country's civil war.Amid mounting pressure over possible use of the banned arms, Syria's UN envoy insisted any inquiry be limited to claims that opposition rebels fired chemical weapon shells near Aleppo last month. He said a "chemical material" was used in a new incident on Monday.UN leader Ban ...
GAZA CITY: An Israeli air strike on Gaza City killed one person and wounded another on Tuesday, Gaza's Hamas-run health ministry said."A man in his 20s was martyred and another injured in an Israeli air strike... in Shati refugee camp in western Gaza City," health ministry spokesman Ashraf al-Qudra told AFP.Copyright AFP (Agence France-Presse), 2013 ...
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