Weapons experts begin Syria mission
Source: Belfast Telegraph.
The team overseeing the destruction of Syria's chemical weapons have begun work as deadly clashes raged on the edge of Damascus.
Their mission - endorsed by a UN Security Council resolution - faces the tightest deadline ever placed before the experts from the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons.
It was not clear where the inspectors, who arrived in Syria on Tuesday from neighbouring Lebanon, were headed from their hotel in central Damascus. Their work comes against the backdrop of relentless fighting.
On the northern edge of the city, fierce clashes between Syrian troops and al-Qaida-linked fighters killed at least 12 soldiers and pro-government militiamen as the army pressed on with a campaign to dislodge opposition fighters from the capital.
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