Explosions strike Damascus

Two strong explosions shook the Syrian capital of Damascus this morning. The nature of the blasts was not clear, and there are no immediate casualty reports.

The blasts come in the wake a roadside bombing that hit a Syrian military truck just moments after a team of UN observers passed by. The head of the observer mission, Major General Robert Mood, who was in the convoy, said “This is exactly the graphic example of the kind of violence that is challenging the life of the Syrian population every day in many cities around the country.”

The U.N said weeks ago that more than 9,000 people had been killed in Syria, and hundreds more have died since.
International diplomacy has thus far failed to stop the bloodshed.

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