International peace envoy Lakhdar Brahimi met with Syria's
foreign minister Saturday in Damascus to discuss the possibility of securing a
temporary cease-fire during eid al-Adha in the conflict between Syrian forces
and rebel groups.
The UN-Arab League envoy is also scheduled to meet with
President Bashar al-Assad and opposition leaders during his visit to Syria.
Despite the international support given to Brahimi's call
for ceasefire, the Syrian scene seems to be divided regarding the
implementation of Eid al-Adha truce.
Meanwhile, clashes and shelling continued on Saturday in
several regions across Syria.
The Syrian state Television confirmed that army members
destroyed bases for militants in Homs and seized weapons, declaring the
discovery of a tunnel used to smuggle weapons and rockets.
On the other hand, the rebels' sites reported that
helicopters continued to fly over Rif Latakia throwing bombs and shells, and that Regime
forces attempted to storm several towns and arrest people.
On the Turkish-Syrian border, smoke was billowing
from the Syrian town of Haram on Saturday, a day after Turkey's army fired on Syria
after two shells landed in Turkish territory.
The morning was punctuated by
sounds of small blasts and gunfire, said witnesses in the nearby Turkish
village of Besaslan.
On the other hand, An Islamist militant group has
said it planned a rebel attack on a Syrian air defense base near Aleppo on Oct.
12 and that Chechen fighters took part in the assault, the SITE monitoring
group reported late on Friday.
In several other statements it posted
online on Friday, the group, the Al Nusra Front, also claimed responsibility
for several other attacks and violent acts across Syria.
Elsewhere, protests were staged in Venezuela to support the
Syrian President Bashar Assad outside the Syrian embassy in Caracas.
International positions
Yemen's power transfer deal,
which allowed President Ali Abdullah Saleh to step down, is no longer a
suitable model for a solution in Syria, the Turkish foreign minister said at a
news conference in Sanaa on Saturday.
"The Yemen solution was suitable for
Syria nine months ago," Ahmet Davutoglu told the news conference with his
Yemeni counterpart. "But now, because every country has its own special
circumstances and due to the latest developments on the Syrian arena which saw
the use of artillery and the air force in bombarding Syrian cities, this has
narrowed the room for implementing such solutions."
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