{"id":27212,"date":"2013-02-11T09:10:37","date_gmt":"2013-02-11T08:10:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.presstv.ir\/detail\/2013\/02\/11\/288387\/powerful-blast-heard-in-damascus\/"},"modified":"2013-02-11T09:10:37","modified_gmt":"2013-02-11T08:10:37","slug":"powerful-blast-heard-in-damascus-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/breaking-news\/powerful-blast-heard-in-damascus-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Powerful blast heard in Damascus"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"divDetailBody\">\n<p>A powerful explosion has been heard outside the French embassy in the Syrian capital of Damascus, amid ongoing clashes between the Syrian army and the foreign-sponsored militant groups near the city, <strong>Press TV<\/strong> reports.<\/p>\n<p>The blast took place in the al-Afif neighborhood of Damascus on Monday. There were no immediate reports of casualties or damage.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Separately, several people sustained injuries when the militants detonated a car bomb near a police station in the Arnous Square of the Syrian capital. The bombing also damaged a number of vehicles parked in the area.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>\nMany people, including large numbers of Syrian security forces, have been killed in the turmoil that began in Syria nearly two years ago.<\/p>\n<p>On February 8, a Syrian cleric was killed in a mortar attack carried out by the militants on a mosque in the northwestern city of Aleppo.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, the Syrian army continues to engage militant groups across the country.<\/p>\n<p>Reports said on Saturday the militants suffered heavy losses in clashes with Syrian security forces over the control of a major highway in Damascus.<\/p>\n<p>MP\/HSN<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/pixel.quantserve.com\/pixel\/p-89EKCgBk8MZdE.gif\" border=\"0\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A powerful explosion has been heard outside the French embassy in the Syrian capital of Damascus, amid ongoing clashes between the Syrian army and the foreign-sponsored militant groups near the city, Press TV reports.<br \/>\nThe blast took place in the al-Af&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1213,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[487],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-27212","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-breaking-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27212","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1213"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27212"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27212\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27212"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27212"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27212"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}