Syria: Assad berani dalam menghadapi konflik yang berterusan. Presiden Syria Bashar al Assad berkata, beliau yakin kemenangan terhadap pemberontak, sebagai pemberontakan terhadap keganasan atas pemerintahannya. Beliau berkata demikian semasa lawatan simbolik ke bandar didera daripada Deraya, kini kebanyakannya semula oleh tenteranya.
Tetapi kuasa-kuasa Assad telah mengalami pukulan di bandar tengah Homs - mengikut aktivis pembangkang. Sekurang-kurangnya 40 orang telah terbunuh nampaknya dalam satu letupan yang besar yang melanda senjata ‘cache’ dan dalam serangan mortar di daerah terutamanya Alawi - mazhab minoriti yang sama seperti Assad.
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Syria: Assad defiant in face of continuing conflict. Syrian President Bashar al Assad says he confident of victory against rebels, as the revolt against his rule rages on. He was speaking during a symbolic visit to the battered town of Deraya, now mostly retaken by his army.
But Assad's forces have suffered a blow in the central city of Homs - according to opposition activists. At least 40 people were apparently killed in a huge explosion that hit a weapons cache, and in mortar attacks on mainly Alawite districts - the same minority sect as Assad.
Meanwhile, the UN is preparing to send an investigation team to three sites where chemical attacks have allegedly taken place.
