Syrian rebels target security officials in capital
Rebels seeking to topple Syrian President Bashar Assad’s regime launched separate three attacks on his security forces around Damascus on Tuesday, killing two ranking officers and rocking the capital with a car-bomb, activists and state media said.
The attacks took place as a U.N. team observing Syria’s violence-ridden truce was visiting another area near the capital, the restive suburb of Douma. Activists and amateur videos reported shelling and gunfire in that area Tuesday, just a day after 55 people were killed across Syria - most of them in a city the observers had recently visited.