(Vatican Radio) - At least 10 people have been killed in a car bombing in the Syrian
capital Damascus, state media report, on the fourth day of a supposed ceasefire. Nathan
Morley reports:
State TV said
women and children were among the victims of the attack in the south-eastern area
of of the city. Earlier, activists said government jets had bombed the city's Harasta
district. Meanwhile, after talks Monday in Moscow with Russian Foreign Minister
Sergei Lavrov, UN envoy Lakhdar Brahimi said he was sorry a holiday cease-fire did
not take hold, but that the failure would not discourage efforts to find a solution. The
envoy also said the United Nations is not sending a peacekeeping operation to Syria. He
had called for the Syrian government and rebels opposed to President Bashar al-Assad
to observe a truce during the Muslim Eid al-Adha holiday, but both sides continued
fighting. The Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said 110 Syrians
were killed in fighting Sunday. U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon expressed deep
disappointment that the cease-fire failed to take hold. During a speech Monday in
South Korea, Ban called on the international community to do more to help stop the
fighting. He said that as long as there are international divisions, the suffering
of the Syrian people will only grow.