Car Bomb Kills 10 in Syria Regime Bastion Latakia
إقرأ هذا الخبر بالعربية
Ten people were killed and dozens wounded on Wednesday in a rare car bombing in the Syrian city of Latakia, the coastal bastion of President Bashar Assad, state media said.
"Terrorists detonated a car laden with many explosives at noon (0900 GMT) in Hamam square in Latakia, killing 10 people," the official SANA news agency reported.
It said the explosion had also wounded 25 people and caused significant damage to nearby cars and buildings.
State television aired footage of charred cars with their windows blown out, and firefighters attempting to put out blazes in the city.
Latakia, the heartland of the minority Alawite sect to which the Assad clan belongs, has been largely spared the violence that has wracked Syria since an uprising against regime rule erupted in March 2011.
But SANA reported that officials had discovered two cars full of explosives in Latakia on Tuesday and "arrested those responsible".
The car bomb that went off on Wednesday was the biggest of its kind in Latakia since the war broke out, said the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights.
"This is rare for Latakia city, which is usually hit by rockets," Observatory head Rami Abdel Rahman told AFP.
Rebel fighters entrenched in the hilly terrain around Latakia regularly fire rockets and other missiles into the city.
Abdel Rahman said the car bomb detonated on the northern edges of the city and "wounded dozens, including four or five in critical condition".
Many Syrians displaced by violence in neighboring regions have taken refuge in Latakia province and some businesses have moved to the relative safety of the area.
The province is home to Assad's ancestral village and support for his government remains strong there, although the war has also taken a toll among conscripts and volunteers from the area.
Rebels and jihadists have long made the region a target, in part for its symbolic value as a regime stronghold.
In recent months, a rebel alliance that includes Al-Qaida affiliate Al-Nusra Front has been battling to capture the Sahl al-Ghab region that borders Latakia.
It has claimed some territory but is facing strong resistance from Syrian forces backed by Lebanon's Hizbullah movement.
Elsewhere on Wednesday, two students were killed and 15 people wounded when mortar rounds hit an engineering college in Damascus, SANA said.
State television later reported another three people were killed and 45 wounded in opposition shelling on Jaramana, an area southeast of the capital.
More than 240,000 people have been killed in the conflict, which began with anti-government protests in March 2011 but spiraled into a complex civil war after a government crackdown.
02 September 2015, 15:29
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now i understand why you declined the U.S passport.... I get it.
02 September 2015, 15:54
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How is it different from the "democracy" Iran and hizbillaat are promoting a la terrorist cells in different countries? Oh and...vilayet e faqih.
02 September 2015, 16:17
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Bigjohn the students who ataged demos against maliki are still forbiden to go to college.. And those are lucky concidering the jailed oppnents...
02 September 2015, 18:36
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Sorry bigjohn ahmadinajat (maliki ahmadinajat... Not such a difference in fact, except maybe maliki stole a lot more money, najad was more religiously morivated...) sorry for the mystake..
02 September 2015, 19:27
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شرطة طهران تهدد بحجز سيارات النساء غير المحجبات
هدد قائد شرطة السير في طهران، اليوم الأربعاء، باحتجاز السيارات التي تقودها نساء غير محجبات، نقلا عن وكالة الأنباء الإيرانية الطلابية.
وقال الجنرال تيمور حسيني: "إذا كانت هناك امرأة غير محجبة بالشكل المناسب أو خلعت حجابها في السيارة، سيتم حجز الآلية طبقا للقانون". وأضاف: "حاليا ليس هناك أي غرامات".
وتابع: "سيحال الملف على القضاء، وبأمر قضائي ستعاد السيارة إلى صاحبها" من دون تحديد فترة حجز السيارة.
ومنذ الثورة الإسلامية في 1979 بات ارتداء الحجاب إلزاميا في إيران للمرأة أكانت إيرانية أو أجنبية.
http://www.alarabiya.net/ar/iran/2015/09/02/شرطة-طهران-تهدد-بحجز-سيارات-النساء-غير-المحجبات.html
02 September 2015, 14:43
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The "moderate rebels" are killing innocent people again, the western world community supported these savages from the beginning of the conflict.
They wonder why the Syrian airforce retaliates?
02 September 2015, 15:26
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they are all military personnel. There are no civilians left in Latakia.
02 September 2015, 15:46
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The syrian airforce were retaliating on fsa leaving the choice between assad and isis.. This is no secret just listen to kandill interviews.. But no, it only brought more pain to syrian people....
02 September 2015, 16:20
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Maybe not but surely riad el turk, sabra, kilo are...
Do u really think that assad was the best option?? Me or cahos is a good rethoric??
Remind me of someone by the way...
02 September 2015, 18:40
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The revolution started with no guns bigjohn, stayed like this 9months, fsa were syrian army desterters who refused to kill their own people..... We can ho all the story again bigjohn...
Assad did everything so we have to choose between and islamists...
But....
02 September 2015, 15:52
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While it WAS majority sunni, it still had the highest population of Alawis out of all of Syria's cities and they are the ones who hold power jn the city.
02 September 2015, 15:59
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mohammad you are sympathizing with the takfiris. Then how come there were no refugees and hunger before the conflict?
It was when your beloved takfiris called for 5alifah in protests that the war got serious.
02 September 2015, 17:50
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who told you there was no hunger and refugees? Ask any Syrian dissident about the torture chambers in ASSad prisons WAY before the revolution.
And you and your kind are calling for vilayet e faqih, what's the diff?
02 September 2015, 15:11
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The whiny shiite girl with multiple accounts breaks my heart with her whining. I wish she'd whined as much when the Syrian regime blew up two mosques in Tripoli Lebanon instead of supporting the hiding Hassan in sending Shiite boys to die defending it.
02 September 2015, 15:33
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but how do you explain this
CIA, U.S. Special Forces Launch Drone Campaign in Syria
http://www.naharnet.com/stories/en/188882-media-cia-u-s-special-forces-launch-drone-campaign-in-syria
02 September 2015, 15:48
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Indeed southern, that's why we should be cheering for the other guys including our local shiite milicia batteling in syria/ irak, maybe yemen and god knows where under the banner of "labayka ya hussein"....
02 September 2015, 15:50
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Yeah How do you explain that since you said IS and Nusra are the same?
02 September 2015, 16:04
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southern, petraeus is a non official and has no say in U.S policy. The U.S officials are sending drones into Syria ( no sovereignty issues there! ) to liquidate ISIS leadership. These are facts.
02 September 2015, 15:44
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Any news about lokmann?..
U know the poor islamist guy that assad freed from jail in 2011 and was headding da3ech in damascus area?...
Stop bulling all played the islamist cards, this maddness should end and it wont before assad is out....
Poor syrian people...
02 September 2015, 15:53
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Yes that is true. They always talk about Alawite heartland when majority there in Lataqiyah are muslim sunni.
02 September 2015, 16:13
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sure you were there and sure there are hundreds of thousands of sunnis fighting for assad. Sure did assad say "we have shortages in manpower".
02 September 2015, 19:04
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@bigjohn
i wish we met when you came here in January. I would have showed you how much we love assad.
02 September 2015, 15:56
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I wonder if they told from which gulf country they hv got the missils...
Anw bigjohn to be fair all, including assad played the islamist card (assad freed lokmann and his friend from his jails in 2011 whil keeping political protestors under torture, assad preferd to go bomb fsa just to keep the choice between him and isis, and this kandill said it quite loud on tv interviews even if some prefer to ommit it).... Assad brought our shiite millicia to help him under the banner of ya hussein...
The only solution is for assad clan to leave, and start building a real democracy, not the kind of democracy that jeep him in power with 98% of vote, not the kind of democracy that keep his clan getting wealthier while his people is trying to survive....
What do u think?....
02 September 2015, 16:16
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i thought there was a democractically elected president in afghanistan unless your trip to afghanistan in january also showed the takfiris were in power?
02 September 2015, 16:20
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So u aresaying on 20million population assad clan was the best alternative???
02 September 2015, 15:59
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مقتل 3 عناصر لميليشيا حزب الله على أطراف مدينة الزبداني بريف دمشق
فاد مراسل الجزيرة في لبنان اليوم الأربعاء أن ثلاثة مسلحين من حزب الله اللبناني قتلوا بالساعات الماضية، خلال اشتباكات مع مقاتلي المعارضة السورية المسلحة، في مدينة الزبداني في ريف دمشق.
02 September 2015, 16:19
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bless anyone person, entity, organization, brigade or country that inflicts extreme pain and unbearable suffering, death, torture, and destruction upon the iranian sectarian terrorist militia and its members, supporters or followers wherever they may be.
02 September 2015, 17:05
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ansarullah and hezbullah will avenge this for sure.
Allah y2awe shi3et Ali
Lan Tousba Zainib Marratayyn
02 September 2015, 17:49
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بالصور: خسائر “حزب الله” البشرية في الزبداني تتوالى… 5 قتلى جدد
http://www.lebanese-forces.com/2015/09/02/hezbollah-222/
Good Riddance
Made my and mowaten's day;)
I hope these sectarian terrorists did not suffer too much teeeeeheeeeeheeeee :D
02 September 2015, 18:06
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why not just partition syria into smaller states and end the conflict
