A car bombing in Damascus on Sunday killed at least nine members of the security forces, a watchdog said, as regime warplanes bombarded the embattled Syrian town of Qusayr, a rebel holdout.
The violence came as France’s foreign minister said a conference to find a political solution to the conflict could be delayed from June to July.
And in Lebanon, two rockets fired from Syria struck a border area and Israeli warplanes could be heard flying low over several parts of the country.
The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said the suicide car bomb, in the east of the capital, appeared to have been carried out by the extremist Al-Nusra Front, which is allied with al-Qaeda, although there was no immediate confirmation.
“At least nine regime forces were killed in the explosion of a car bomb near a police station in the Jubar neighbourhood,” Observatory director Rami Abdel Rahman said.
Syrian state news agency Sana reported “10 citizens were wounded when a car driven by a terrorist exploded in Jubar”, but gave no information on deaths in the attack.
