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Syria-Lebanon-Iran
UN ‘ready to engage’ with Assad in Geneva talks; Daesh bomb kills 8 in Homs
2017-12-06
[ARABNEWS] The UN envoy for Syria is "ready to engage" with Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir Pencilneck al-Assad
Lord of the Baath...
’s representatives as peace talks are set to resume in Geneva, but they have not shown up yet.

UN spokeswoman Alessandra Vellucci said the eighth round of peace talks under special envoy Staffan de Mistura was set to restart Tuesday after a weekend break.

She said: "The delegation of the government has been invited back in Geneva as of today."

Syria’s ambassador to Geneva, Hussam Edin Aala, told The News Agency that Dare Not be Named that Damascus was "studying" the invitation.

The head of Syria’s regime delegation has blasted the opposition for a communique in which it stated its ultimate goal was to remove Assad from power. Bashar Jaafari said on Friday his team was leaving Geneva for the weekend and that Syria would decide whether it would return to the talks.

Jaafari warned then that there could be no progress in the talks as long as the opposition insisted on what he described as a "provocative and irresponsible" position.

Meanwhile,
...back at the dirigible, the gondola was dangling by a single thread of rope.

Jack! Cynthia cried. I just realized I'm afraid of heights! I don't even like high heels!...

Syrian state media and an opposition monitoring group said an kaboom has destroyed a van near the central city of Homs, killing at least eight people.

ISIS claimed Tuesday’s attack in Akarma, a regime stronghold south of Homs.

ISIS said it targeted a bus carrying Syrian soldiers, but the Britannia-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said those killed were civilians, including six women.

Syrian state TV has aired images of the van’s charred body, as well as damaged vehicles nearby. State news agency SANA says eight people were killed and 18 maimed.

Separately, Syria’s state news agency said Syrian air defense has shot down three Israeli missiles that were targeting a military post near Damascus.

SANA said the attack occurred early on Tuesday but has not said whether there were casualties.
An Nahar adds:
An explosives-laden bus blew up Tuesday in a predominantly pro-government neighbourhood of the central Syrian city of Homs that has been repeatedly targeted, killing eight people, state television
... and if you can't believe state television who can you believe?
said.

The attack was claimed shortly afterwards by the Islamic State
...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not really Moslems....
group in a posting by its propaganda agency Amaq on social media channels.

The blast rocked a street in the Akrameh neighbourhood mostly inhabited by members of the Alawite minority to which Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir Pencilneck al-Assad
Before going into the family business Pencilneck was an eye doctor. If he'd stuck with it he'd have had a good practice by now...
belongs.

"The toll in the terrorist kaboom on al-Ahram Street has rising to eight dead and 15 injured," state television
... and if you can't believe state television who can you believe?
said in a breaking news alert.
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