Syria (and Beyond) Live Coverage: Fighting Continues in Aleppo
Saturday, August 11, 2012 at 11:52A reporter for Press TV, escorted by Syrian military, declares that Salah Ed Dine is Aleppo is free of "terrorists" --- In his previous broadcast from Aleppo on 30 July, the reporter said, "All is normal"
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Friday's Syria (and Beyond) Live Coverage: The Battle for Aleppo Continues
2025 GMT: Syria. The Local Coordination Committees reports that 80 people have been killed by security forces today, including 19 in Damascus and its suburbs and 15 in Aleppo Province.
1915 GMT: Syria. A Lebanese judge has charged former Minister of Information Michel Samaha and two Syrian army officers with setting up an armed group to incite sectarian strife through “terror attacks”, including bombings and assassinations.
One of the Syrian officers as General Ali Mamluk, the Syrian National Security chief.
The indictment also said that Samaha and the Syrian army officers set up the armed group to commit crimes, fueling sectarianism “by targeting the authority of the state and its civil and military institutions.” It alleged that the group conspired “with the intelligence services of a foreign country to undertake attacks against Lebanon".
Samaha was arrested on Thursday, initially in a case linked to explosives.