Car Bomb in Assad Stronghold Kills at Least 10

At least ten people were killed and scores wounded when a car bomb exploded in the Syrian city of Latakia on Wednesday, state television said, in a rare attack in a coastal stronghold of President Bashar al-Assad. The explosion was in a main square, state television said. Latakia has so far been largely spared the violence that has ravaged Syria during more than four years of civil war, killing around a quarter of a million people. Video footage on state and social media showed...

© La Voix de l'Amérique - mercredi 2 septembre 2015