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Saudi Arabian clerics have declared jihad against Russian and Syrian government forces after urging all Sunni Muslims to join the battle against President Bashar al-Assad.
More than 50 clerics and academics signed a joint statement calling on Sunnis to ‘hurry’ to war-torn Syria and help to topple Assad’s government.
The call came shortly before two rockets were fired at the Russian embassy in Syria’s capital Damascus sparking panic among those who had gathered in a show of support for Moscow’s intervention in the country.
Hundreds of Syrians had reportedly met this morning to back Russia’s air war in Syria before the shells were fired towards the building in the Mazraa neighbourhood.
One witness said both rockets appeared to land in a park close to the embassy compound. A second witness said one of them landed inside the compound. There were no immediate reports of casualties
or damage to the building.
Russia’s Interfax news agency said two rockets landed in the embassy grounds. It quoted a diplomat at the embassy as saying none of the embassy employees was wounded.
Last night, clerics in Saudi Arabia urged Sunni governments to ‘give all moral, material, political and military’ in the battled against Assad.
Saudi Arabian clerics have declared jihad against Russian and Syrian government forces after urging all Sunni Muslims to join the battle against President Bashar al-Assad.
More than 50 clerics and academics signed a joint statement calling on Sunnis to ‘hurry’ to war-torn Syria and help to topple Assad’s government.
The call came shortly before two rockets were fired at the Russian embassy in Syria’s capital Damascus sparking panic among those who had gathered in a show of support for Moscow’s intervention in the country.
Hundreds of Syrians had reportedly met this morning to back Russia’s air war in Syria before the shells were fired towards the building in the Mazraa neighbourhood.
One witness said both rockets appeared to land in a park close to the embassy compound. A second witness said one of them landed inside the compound. There were no immediate reports of casualties
or damage to the building.
Russia’s Interfax news agency said two rockets landed in the embassy grounds. It quoted a diplomat at the embassy as saying none of the embassy employees was wounded.
Last night, clerics in Saudi Arabia urged Sunni governments to ‘give all moral, material, political and military’ in the battled against Assad.
