Syria Makes Formal UN Complaint over 'Israeli Attack'

January 31, 2013 from Euronews

Syria has lodged a formal complaint with the UN over an air strike inside the country blamed on Israel. There is confusion over what was actually hit, with Syrian state television reporting two people killed and five injured in the strike against a research center in Jamraya near Syria's border with Lebanon. American officials say what was struck was a convoy carrying weapons to Lebanon for militant group Hezbollah. The bombing has drawn criticism from Russia.

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