MADAyuMadyan - Laporan letupan di pangkalan tentera Syria telah mendorong speku-lasi mengenai serangan baru Israel ke atas Syria. Pegawai Israel tidak akan mengesahkan laporan bahawa jet mereka yang dijalankan serangan.
Balai Cerap Syria bagi Hak Asasi Manusia berkata letupan itu berlaku di pangkalan udara Syria di Lataika di pantai Mediterranean. Seorang pegawai pentadbiran Obama men-gesahkan serangan itu berlaku dalam sekelip mata pada hari Khamis tetapi dengan syarat tidak ada butiran .
Seorang lagi pegawai keselamatan berkata, sasaran itu peluru berpandu buatan Russia. Pegawai-pegawai bercakap dengan syarat tidak mahu namanya disiarkan kerana mereka tidak diberi kuasa untuk membincangkan secara terbuka menyerang.
Serangan itu berlaku pada masa yang sama bahawa pemeriksa antarabangsa mengu-mumkan bahawa mereka telah selesai merombak kimia kemudahan pengeluaran senjata Syria.
Utusan PBB Lakhdar Brahimi telah Damascusto cuba untuk mendapatkan sokongan untuk goyah rundingan damai untuk menamatkan perang saudara Syria di mana lebih daripada 100,000 orang telah dibunuh
Pada hari Rabu dia bertemu dengan Presiden Bashar al-Assad yang memberitahunya bahawa rundingan untuk menghentikan konflik hanya akan berjaya jika kuasa-kuasa asing berakhir sokongan untuk pemberontak berjuang untuk menggulingkan beliau.
Explosion prompts speculation of Israeli attack on Syria
Reports of an explosion at a Syrian military base have prompted speculation of a new Israeli attack on Syria. Israeli officials would not confirm a report that their jets carried out a strike.
The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said the explosion took place at the Syrian air base in Lataika on the Mediterranean coast. An Obama administration official confirmed the attack happened overnight on Thursday but provided no details.
Another security official said that the target was Russian-made missiles. The officials spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorised to publicly discuss the attack. The attack happened at the same time that international inspectors announced they had finished dismantling Syria's chemical weapons production facilities.
UN envoy Lakhdar Brahimi has been in Damascusto try to shore up support for faltering peace talks to end Syria's civil war in which more than 100,000 people have been killed
On Wednesday he met President Bashar al-Assad who told him that negotiations to stop the conflict would only succeed if foreign powers ended support for rebels fighting to overthrow him.
Keganasan maut di sempadan Israel dgn Gaza berhampiran terowong baru-baru ini ditemui
MADAyuMadyan - Pertempuran meletus di sempadan Israel dengan Gaza lewat pada hari Khamis sebagai tentera Israel telah menjalankan apa yang ia katakan adalah operasi pertahanan terhadap ditemui baru-baru konkrit yang dibarisi, terowong batu-panjang dari Gaza ke Israel.
Tentera Israel berkata, militan merancang untuk menggunakan terowong untuk menye-rang atau menculik Israel. Pada tahun 2006, militan Hamas bersekutu menyelinap ke Israel melalui satu terowong itu, membunuh dua askar Israel dan menculik yang ketiga, dia memegang tebusan di Gaza selama 5 tahun.
Sekurang-kurangnya 3 militan Palestin terbunuh keganasan Khamis, berkata pemerintah wilayah Hamas. Hamas berkata kereta-kereta kebal Israel telah memasuki Gaza sebelah sempadan. Pertempuran meletus sebagai militan melepaskan tembakan peluru mortar di tangki. Hamas berkata, sebuah helikopter Israel melepaskan roket di kawasan itu.
Jurucakap tentera Israel berkata, tentera telah menjalankan “tindakan menentukan” di kawasan terowong di Gaza tetapi tidak mempunyai maklumat lanjut.
Deadly violence on Israel's border with Gaza near
recently discovered tunnel . . .
Clashes broke out on Israel's border with Gaza late on Thursday as the Israeli army was conducting what it said was a defensive operation against a recently discovered concrete-lined, mile-long tunnel from Gaza into Israel.
The Israeli military said militants planned to use the tunnel to attack or kidnap Israelis. In 2006, Hamas-allied militants sneaked into Israel through one such tunnel, killed two Israeli soldiers and kidnapped a third, holding him hostage in Gaza for five years.
At least three Palestinian militants were killed Thursday's violence, the enclaves Hamas rulers said. Hamas said the Israeli tanks had entered the Gaza side of the border. Clashes erupted as militants fired mortar shells at the tanks. Hamas added that an Israeli helicopter fired a rocket in the area.
An Israeli military spokeswoman said forces were carrying out "a pinpoint action" in the area of the tunnel in the Gaza Strip but did not have further details.
