A number of people have been killed
in two car bomb attacks in Syria.
The first occurred outside a state-run development agency in Ziyara, a
village in the central province of Hama.
State media reported that two people had been killed and 10 others injured,
but one activist group said at least 50 soldiers and militiamen had died.
The second blast left four people dead in Mezzeh 86, a predominantly
pro-government district in the west of the capital, Damascus, officials
said.
The violence came as the main opposition coalition, the Syrian National
Council (SNC), announced that it had broadened its membership to more than 400,
taking in activists and groups from inside Syria.
The move, announced at a meeting in Qatar, seeks to deflect criticism that
the exile-led coalition fails to represent people on the ground.
On Thursday, SNC members will consider a US-backed proposal to set up a new
50-member leadership group that speaks for all the major opposition factions and
includes military commanders and local councils...
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