Raw Video: Damascus Car Bombs Kill 10 on Final Day of Syrian 'Ceasefire'

October 29, 2012 from International Business Times

At least 10 people have been killed in a car bombing in the Syrian capital Damascus, on the final day of the Eid ceasefire. The victims are thought to include women and children. UN Chief Ban Ki-moon has acknowledged that the four day truce has been a failure, with the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights claiming 420 people have been killed since Friday.

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Syrian Civil War

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Jaramana

Jaramana is a city in southern Syria, administratively part of the Rif Dimashq Governorate in the Ghouta plain. Its location, 10 kilometers southeast of the Syrian capital, makes it a bustling town in the greater Damascus metropolitan area, with a mostly Christian and Druze po... Explore this topic

Damascus

Damascus, commonly known in Syria as ash-Sham and nicknamed as the City of Jasmine, is the capital and the second largest city of Syria after Aleppo. It borders Quneitra, Daraa and As-Suwayda to the south, Jordan to the east, Homs to the north, and Lebanon to the west. It is a... Explore this topic

Ceasefire

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Car bomb

A car bomb, or truck bomb, also known as a Vehicle Borne Improvised Explosive Device, is an improvised explosive device placed inside a car or other vehicle and then detonated. It is commonly used as a weapon of assassination, terrorism or guerrilla warfare, to kill the occupa... Explore this topic

Syria

Syria, officially the Syrian Arab Republic, is a country in Western Asia, bordering Lebanon and the Mediterranean Sea to the West, Turkey to the north, Iraq to the east, Jordan to the south and Israel to the southwest. A country of fertile plains, high mountains and deserts, i... Explore this topic

Ban Ki-moon

Ban Ki-moon is the eighth and current Secretary-General of the United Nations, after succeeding Kofi Annan in 2007. Before becoming Secretary-General, Ban was a career diplomat in South Korea's Ministry of Foreign Affairs and in the United Nations. He entered diplomatic servic... Explore this topic

Eid al-Adha

Eid al-Adha, also called Feast of the Sacrifice, the Major Festival, the Greater Eid, Kurban Bayram, Eid al-Bakr and Bakrid, is an important religious holiday celebrated by Muslims worldwide to honour the willingness of the prophet ʾIbrāhīm to sacrifice his young first-born so... Explore this topic

Lakhdar Brahimi

Lakhdar Brahimi is an Algerian United Nations envoy and advisor, and since August 2012, the United Nations peace envoy to Syria. He is also a member of The Elders, a group of world leaders working for global peace. Brahimi is a member of the Commission on Legal Empowerment of ... Explore this topic

Syrian conflict peace proposals

Syrian conflict peace proposals are initiatives and plans to resolve the Syrian civil war. Among the most significant attempts to resolve the conflict are the Arab League peace plan and the resulting Arab League observer mission, launched in December 2011. In addition, a Russi... Explore this topic

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