{"id":50306,"date":"2013-07-14T23:29:40","date_gmt":"2013-07-14T22:29:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/breaking-news\/bomb-attacks-kill-6-in-damascus-suburb\/50306\/"},"modified":"2013-07-14T23:29:40","modified_gmt":"2013-07-14T22:29:40","slug":"bomb-attacks-kill-6-in-damascus-suburb","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/breaking-news\/bomb-attacks-kill-6-in-damascus-suburb\/","title":{"rendered":"Bomb attacks kill 6 in Damascus suburb"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Syrian security agents carry a body following a huge explosion that shook central Damascus on February 21, 2013.<\/p>\n<div id=\"divDetailBody\">\n<p>At least six people have been killed in two car bomb attacks in a northern suburb of the Syrian capital Damascus.\n<\/p>\n<p>Several people were also injured when the explosives-laden cars exploded near a police station in Dayr Atiyah near Damascus on Sunday.\n<\/p>\n<p>No group has claimed responsibility for the attacks, but Syrian officials say the main suspects are al-Nusra militants linked to al-Qaeda.\n<\/p>\n<p>Sunday\u00e2\u201e\u00a2s attack comes as the Syrian Army maintains its edge over the foreign-sponsored militants fighting against the government.\n<\/p>\n<p>The Syrian troops have recently conducted successful clean-up operations across the country, inflicting heavy losses on Takfiri extremists.\n<\/p>\n<p>The Syrian Army\u00e2\u201e\u00a2s push against the militants rattled their foreign sponsors.\n<\/p>\n<p>Syrian Information Minister Omran al-Zoubi said on June 26 that Saudi Arabia is trembling with fear because of the Syrian Army\u00e2\u201e\u00a2s recent successes against the militants.\n<\/p>\n<p>In a meeting with US Secretary of State John Kerry in Jeddah, Saudi Foreign Minister Saud al-Faisal insisted on June 25 that the militants in Syria must be armed with anti-aircraft and anti-tank weapons.\n<\/p>\n<p>Zoubi said that the Saudi weapons and money is the main reason behind bloodshed in Syria, adding that Faisal \u00c5\u201cis lost in the Syrian blood.\u201d\n<\/p>\n<p>Syria has been gripped by deadly unrest since 2011. According to the United Nations, more than 90,000 people have been killed and millions of others displaced in the violence.\n<\/p>\n<p>Damascus says the chaos is being orchestrated from outside the country, and there are reports that a very large number of the militants are foreign nationals.\n<\/p>\n<p>The Syrian government says the West and its regional allies &#8212; especially Qatar, Saudi Arabia, and Turkey &#8212; are supporting the militants.\n<\/p>\n<p>GJH\/HN<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Republished with permission from: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.presstv.ir\/detail\/2013\/07\/14\/313817\/bomb-attacks-kill-6-in-damascus-suburb\/\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Bomb attacks kill 6 in Damascus suburb\">Press TV<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Syrian security agents carry a body following a huge explosion that shook central Damascus on February 21, 2013. At least six people have been killed in two car bomb attacks in a northern suburb of the Syrian capital Damascus. Several people were also injured when the explosives-laden cars exploded near a police station in Dayr [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[487],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-50306","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\/50306","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=50306"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50306\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=50306"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=50306"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=50306"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}