Syria Civil Servant Gunned Down in Capital
A Syrian civil servant has been gunned down in the upscale Damascus neighborhood of Mazzeh, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said on Friday.
Ali Ballane, public relations director at the ministry of social affairs, was shot by four armed men at the Kanun restaurant on Thursday evening, said the Observatory which relies on a network of activists and doctors on the ground.
Mazzeh, a center-west neighborhood of Damascus, is home to a number of embassies, government buildings and intelligence service facilities.
Meanwhile, clashes continued between regime troops and rebels in Daraya, south of the capital, the Observatory said. Government troops have been trying to dislodge opposition fighter positions in the area for weeks now.
Source: Agence France Presse
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