{"id":37096,"date":"2013-04-29T11:33:19","date_gmt":"2013-04-29T08:33:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/?p=37096"},"modified":"2013-04-29T11:33:19","modified_gmt":"2013-04-29T08:33:19","slug":"syria-civil-warbomb-attack-prime-minister-syria-capital-damascus-breaking-news-37096","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/syria-civil-warbomb-attack-prime-minister-syria-capital-damascus-breaking-news-37096\/","title":{"rendered":"Syria Civil War:Bomb attack on prime minister of Syria in capital Damascus \/ Breaking News"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/Syria-Prime-Minister-Bomb-Attack-Damascus.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-37111\" title=\"Syria-Prime-Minister-Bomb-Attack-Damascus\" alt=\"Syria-Prime-Minister-Bomb-Attack-Damascus\" src=\"http:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/Syria-Prime-Minister-Bomb-Attack-Damascus.jpg\" width=\"610\" height=\"502\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/Syria-Prime-Minister-Bomb-Attack-Damascus.jpg 610w, https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/Syria-Prime-Minister-Bomb-Attack-Damascus-267x220.jpg 267w, https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/Syria-Prime-Minister-Bomb-Attack-Damascus-437x360.jpg 437w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 610px) 100vw, 610px\" \/><\/a><\/h1>\n<h1>Syrian prime minister Wael Nader al Halqi was reportedly unhurt after a bomb blast targeted his convoy in Damascus.<\/h1>\n<p>Syrian Prime Minister Wael Halqi survived an attempted bombing assassination in central Damascus on Monday. The explosion, believed to be a suicide bombing, took place near a school in a southwestern district of Damascus.<\/p>\n<p>State-run TV reported that the blast went off near a school in the capital&#8217;s western neighbourhood of Mazzeh.<\/p>\n<p>It said: &#8220;The terrorist explosion in al Mazzeh was an attempt to target the convoy of the prime minister.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/syria-hezbollah-bomb-attack.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-37112\" alt=\"SYRIA-CONFLICT-IRAN-DIPLOMACY-SECURITY\" src=\"http:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/syria-hezbollah-bomb-attack.jpg\" width=\"610\" height=\"343\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/syria-hezbollah-bomb-attack.jpg 610w, https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/syria-hezbollah-bomb-attack-280x157.jpg 280w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 610px) 100vw, 610px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Doctor Wael al Halqi is well and not hurt at all.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Mazzeh is where many government and military institutions are situated and where senior Syrian officials live.<\/p>\n<p>The British-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said the assassination attempt killed one of the prime minister&#8217;s bodyguards. His driver and a second bodyguard were also seriously injured.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/Syria-Bomb-Attack-Damascus.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-37113\" alt=\"Syria-Bomb-Attack-Damascus\" src=\"http:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/Syria-Bomb-Attack-Damascus.jpg\" width=\"610\" height=\"343\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/Syria-Bomb-Attack-Damascus.jpg 610w, https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/Syria-Bomb-Attack-Damascus-280x157.jpg 280w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 610px) 100vw, 610px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Damascus has been hit by a string of bomb blasts in recent months that has left hundreds of people dead or wounded.<\/p>\n<p>The Syrian government blames Muslim extremists trying to overthrow President Bashar al Assad for the attacks.<\/p>\n<p>In July last year, an explosion at the Syrian national security building in the capital during a meeting of Cabinet ministers killed the defence minister and his deputy &#8211; Assad&#8217;s brother-in-law.<\/p>\n<!-- Error, Advert is not available at this time due to schedule\/geolocation restrictions! -->\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Syrian prime minister Wael Nader al Halqi was reportedly unhurt after a bomb blast targeted his convoy in Damascus.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":702,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[80,63,1,118,37,14],"tags":[50532,50526,50527,77166,50533,9002,50525,50528,50529,50531,34877,50530],"class_list":["post-37096","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-breaking-news","category-daily","category-general","category-hot","category-middle-east","category-world","tag-al-halqi-bomb-attack","tag-bomb-attack-damascus","tag-bomb-attack-syria","tag-breaking-news","tag-prime-minister-of-syria-bomb-attack","tag-syria","tag-syria-capital-damascus","tag-syria-prime-minister","tag-syria-prime-minister-bomb-attack","tag-syria-prime-minister-wael-nader-al-halqi","tag-syrian-civil-war","tag-wael-nader-al-halqi"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37096","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/702"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=37096"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37096\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37096"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37096"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37096"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}