23 August 2013 - 19:30
Suffocation Cases among Syrian Army Soldiers Reported as Rebels Increase Use of Chemical Weapons

A number of soldiers suffered suffocation as they entered Jobar neighborhood in Damascus countryside on Saturday, an official source announced.

(Ahlul Bayt News Agency) - The source added in a statement to the state-news agency that the staffs of emergency have rescued the soldiers with suffocation cases, indicating that "some of the injured are in a critical condition".An army unit has pushed into the area where the suffocation cases have been reported, the source said, indicating that violent clashes with the armed rebel groups are raging now in the area./149