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  • 15
    Aug
    2012
    6:06am, EDT

    Explosion hits near Damascus hotel used by UN

    Muzaffar Salman / AP

    Syrian soldiers investigate the scene after a bomb attached to a fuel truck exploded outside a hotel where U.N. observers are staying in Damascus, Syria, on August 15, 2012. Several people were wounded, Syria's state TV reported. It said the explosion took place near a parking lot used by the army command, which is about 300 meters away.

    Muzaffar Salman / AP

    Syrian soldiers investigate the scene after an explosion in Damascus on August 15, 2012.

    NBC News wire services report — A bomb exploded in Damascus on Wednesday near a hotel used by United Nations monitors, Syrian state television reported.

    The bomb, which was placed in a parking lot near the Dama Rose Hotel, blew up a fuel truck that sent clouds of black smoke into the sky above the capital. At least three people were reportedly injured. Read the full story.

    See more pictures of the Syrian conflict on PhotoBlog.

    Syrian state television reports that a bomb exploded near a hotel used by United Nations staff in Damascus. NBCNews.com's Dara Brown reports.

    Slideshow: Syria uprising

    Goran Tomasevic / Reuters

    After months of protests and violent crackdowns, a look back at the violence that has overtaken the country.

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  • 28
    Jun
    2012
    10:41am, EDT

    Explosion outside Syria's highest court

    SANA via Reuters

    Civil Defense members extinguish fires on cars at the site of an explosion outside Syria's highest court in central Damascus on June 28, 2012. The explosion tore through the car park outside the court on Thursday, torching at least 20 cars, a Reuters witness said, but it was not immediately known if there were any casualties.

    SANA via Reuters

    Civil Defence members extinguish fires on cars at the site of an explosion outside Syria's highest court in central Damascus on June 28, 2012.

    EDITOR'S NOTE: Images in this report were released by the state-controlled Syrian Arab News Agency (SANA).

    Reuters reports — Rebel forces attacked Syria's main court in central Damascus on Thursday, state television said, while Turkey deployed troops and anti-aircraft rocket launchers to the Syrian border, building pressure on President Bashar al-Assad.

    There was a loud explosion and a column of black smoke rose over Damascus, an Assad stronghold that until the last few days had seemed largely beyond the reach of rebels. State television described it as a "terrorist" blast.

    Previously on PhotoBlog: Glimpses of escalating conflict in Syria

    Dozens of wrecked and burning cars were strewn over a car park used by lawyers and judges. State news agency SANA said three people were wounded by the bomb hidden in one of the cars.

    Read more about developments in Syria on Thursday, which included an announcement by Hamas that one of its members had been killed in his home in Damascus in what the Palestinian Islamist group described as a "cowardly murder".

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    A Syrian fireman tries to extinguish fires at the scene of two huge bomb explosions outside the Palace of Justice in Central Damascus on June 28. A police source told AFP on condition of anonymity that two magnetic bombs exploded in two judges' cars in the open-air car park, while a third was in the process of being defused.

    SANA via EPA

    Smoke rises at the site of bomb explosion in the garage of the Justice Palace in Damascus, Syria, on June 28. According to SANA, a bomb went off at the garage area of the Justice Palace in Damascus, injuring three people and causing material damage.

    SANA via AFP - Getty Images

    Smoke rises above Damascus after two huge bombs exploded outside the Palace of Justice in Central Damascus on June 28.

    A strong explosion rocked the Syrian capital near a busy market and the Palace of Justice. Msnbc.com's Richard Lui reports.

     

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  • 28
    May
    2012
    8:39am, EDT

    Dozens hurt as blast rocks shopping complex in Nairobi

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    Members of the public assist firefighters at the scene of a blast in central Nairobi, Kenya on May 28, 2012.

    Updated at 10.05 a.m. ET -- Reuters reports — A blast struck a shopping complex in Nairobi's business district during Monday's lunch hour, wounding more than two dozen people, but there was confusion over whether the explosion was caused by a bomb or electrical fault.

    Police Commissioner Mathew Iteere told reporters it was too early to determine the cause of the blast. He said blackened wires inside the trading center indicated a possible electrical fault and ruled out a grenade attack.

    Two shopkeepers, however, told Reuters independently that they saw a man drop a bag inside the trading center moments before the blast.

    "He came into the shop twice, looking at T-shirts. He said he didn't have money so he left. Then he came back," said Irene Wachira. "(He was) three shops away from where I was. He left a bag and a few moments later we had an explosion. The roof caved in and debris started falling on us," Wachira said. 

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    An injured woman is carried to an ambulance.

    Johnson Mugo / Reuters

    Civilians attempt to extinguish a fire in a clothing shop after the explosion. Dense black smoke billowed from the badly damaged building and sirens blared as emergency service crews rushed to Moi Avenue, a major road running through the city center.

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    Let us sincerely hope this was caused by some fault in the electrical or gas supply and not by terrorists. Kenya is still one of the only stable countries in that area, and it is good to see people actually fighting the fire and not standing around waving their fists in the air. A speedy recovery to …

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  • 4
    May
    2012
    3:25pm, EDT

    Tigran Mehrabyan / PanARMENIAN via Reuters

    People run from an explosion of gas-filled balloons during a campaign rally in the central Republic Square in Yerevan, May 4, 2012. The explosion injured at least 144 people on Friday just two days before a parliamentary election; a local emergency official was quoted as saying by the Interfax news agency.

    Explosion at campaign rally prior to parliamentary elections in Yerevan, Armenia

    Reuters reported on Friday that most Armenians are hoping for a calm election that will reinforce stability in the tiny country of 3.3 million squeezed between Iran and Turkey.

    For the first time in Armenia's post-Soviet history, the election is less of a traditional conflict between the government and opposition than a battle for supremacy between members of the governing coalition.

    Instability is a constant threat as Armenia is locked in a dispute with neighboring Azerbaijan over the tiny region of Nagorno-Karabakh, over which they fought a war in the 1990s.

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    Now the Armenians can show the whole world, if any Turks try to murder them, now they have the abilitly to expose irrational hatred. Kind of like Israel. People just don't like you because you are different. The Armenians are the ones who developed some of the highly technical fighting equipment for …

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  • 5
    Mar
    2012
    12:27pm, EST

    Scenes of devastation following an explosion in the Congo which killed over 150

    Patrick Fort / AFP - Getty Images

    A man sits among the debris left by yesterday's explosion at the Mpila district of Brazzaville, March 5. The Congo issued a plea for international help Monday as soldiers began recovering bodies from an area devastated by huge explosions at a munitions depot that left more than 150 dead and 1,000 injured. President Denis Sassou Nguesso announced a curfew in the capital Brazzaville and set up an exclusion zone around the devastated eastern district of Mpila, following an emergency cabinet meeting in the early hours of the morning.

    Guy-gervais Kitina / AFP - Getty Images

    Police and residents walk through the debris of the Lycee de la Revolution school near the military barracks in the Mpila district of Brazzaville, March 5.

    Patrick Fort / AFP - Getty Images

    A calcinated tree stands on March 5 in the middle of homes devastated by a huge explosions at a munitions depot in the Mpila area Brazzaville. The government said an electrical short-circuit likely caused a fire, which triggered a series of blasts so powerful they devastated the surrounding area and blew out windows in Kinshasa, the capital of the neighboring Democratic Republic of Congo situated across the Congo river.

    When I saw these photos today, they looked a lot like the scenes in Indiana, Ohio and Kentucky which were devastated by tornadoes. But this was a man-made disaster and the death toll is significantly higher, with some reporting the death toll as high as 200. Full story. 

    Previously on PhotoBlog, the plume of smoke following the explosion.

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  • 5
    Mar
    2012
    9:45am, EST

    Majed Jaber / Reuters

    Firefighters put out a car set ablaze after a truck carrying gas cylinders exploded in in Amman, Jordan, March 5. The explosions left several people injured as nearby shops and cars caught fire. Eye witnesses said the truck driver abandoned his vehicle after noticing fire bursting from one cylinder, which led to a series of explosions.

    Truck carrying gas cylinders explodes in Amman, Jordan

    By Phaedra Singelis, NBC News

    It looks like the truck driver was lucky to escape. According to the Amman Daily News, demand for gas cylinders has been increasing in recent days due to cold weather. The majority of households use gas for heating purposes instead of kerosene, diesel and electricity because of the difference in prices.

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  • 5
    Mar
    2012
    1:25am, EST

    Some 200 reportedly killed in Congo blasts

    Marc Hofer / AFP - Getty Images

    A plume of smoke can be seen over Brazzaville from across the Congo River in Kinshasa, capital of neighboring Democratic Republic of Congo on March 4. A diplomatic source in the Congolese capital said the blasts came from a munitions depot in the east of the city. There was no official word from Brazzaville on the cause of the explosions, or damage sustained.

    Elie Mbena / AP

    Injured people are treated by health workers at a hospital, after multiple explosions occurred at a munitions depot, in Brazzaville, Republic of Congo, Sunday, March 4.

    Around 200 people were killed and many more injured in explosions Sunday morning in Brazzaville, the capital of Congo, according to a senior official in the presidency, citing hospital sources.

    The blasts were felt across the border in Kinshasa, the capital of the Democratic Republic of Congo. Windows were blown out there and roofs lifted off by the blasts, the BBC reported.

    The victims reportedly included many churchgoers attending Sunday services.

    -- Reported by msnbc.com staff and news services

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  • 27
    Feb
    2012
    1:12pm, EST

    Stack of apartments collapses in Russian building after gas explosion

    Russian Emergency Ministry via EPA

    A handout picture issued by the Astrakhan branch of the Russian Emergency Ministry shows a general view of an apartment building after gas explosion on a lower floor in the city of Astrakhan in southern Russia on Monday. The collapse of entire section of a nine-storey residential house injured 12 people, and 10 people are missing.

    Vitaly Loyanich / Reuters

    Russia's members of Emergency Situation Ministry and Interior Ministry officers work at the site of a damaged nine-storey building in Russia's southern city of Astrakhan on Monday. The building collapsed after a household gas explosion, injuring 12 people according to preliminary information released by local media.

    Ministry of Emergency Situations via AP

    Rescuers inspect debris of an apartment building after an explosion on Monday.

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  • 11
    Feb
    2012
    3:24pm, EST

    Hundreds gather to mourn Powell brothers

    Ted S. Warren / Pool via Getty Images

    Chuck Cox, right, reaches out to touch the casket bearing his grandsons, Charlie Powell and Braden Powell, as he walks with his wife Judy Cox during a funeral service the two boys on Feb. 11, in Tacoma, Wash. The boys died Feb. 5, when their father, Josh Powell, set fire to the home he was living in while they were visiting. Powell had been a person of interest in the 2009 disappearance of his wife Susan.

    Dean J. Koepfler / The News Tribune via AP

    A casket with the bodies of Charlie and Braden Powell, ages 7 and 5, is wheeled into Life Center Church in Tacoma, Wash., Feb. 11.

    Hundreds of mourners gathered at a church Saturday to remember two young boys killed when their father burned their house to the ground with himself and his sons inside.

    Sunday's murder-suicide arson, which claimed the lives of Josh Powell and his sons, Charles, 7, and Braden, 5, capped a grim family saga that began more than two years ago with the disappearance of the boys' mother, Susan Powell, under suspicious circumstances in Utah. -- By msnbc.com staff and news services

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    Dean J. Koepfler / The News Tribune via AP

    Mourners hug before a memorial service for Charlie Powell, 7, and Braden Powell, 5, at the Life Center Church in Tacoma, Wash., Feb. 11. The family of missing Utah woman Susan Powell is holding a public funeral for her two sons, nearly a week after their father killed them in a gas-fueled blaze. Hundreds of people are attending the Saturday service. Many are wearing purple and blue ribbons in memory of 7-year-old Charlie and 5-year-old Braden. Family members and the boys' teachers are scheduled to speak. The boys' remains are in one coffin adorned with flowers. They were killed in a fire set by their father, Josh Powell, when they went to visit him Sunday at his home in Graham, Wash.

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  • 10
    Feb
    2012
    6:21am, EST

    Explosions hit security HQs in Aleppo, Syria

    By David R Arnott, NBC News

    Reporting accurately on events in Syria remains extremely difficult, with very few journalists able to operate independently in the country. (The photographer Alessio Romenzi, whose pictures from Homs were published by Time, is a notable exception.) In this case, the images reproduced below — taken from the official Syrian TV broadcast — appear to tally with other photographs and reports posted on Twitter by anti-regime activists.

    Syrian TV via AFP - Getty Images

    Syrian TV shows the scene of a blast in Aleppo on Feb. 10, 2012.

    The Associated Press reports — Two explosions targeted security compounds in the Syrian city of Aleppo on Friday, state media reported, saying 25 people were killed and 175 wounded in a major city that has so far largely stood by President Bashar Assad in the nearly 11-month-old uprising against his rule.

    The blasts were the first significant violence in the northern city, Syria's largest. 

    State TV blamed "terrorists" in the blasts, touting the regime line that armed groups looking to destabilize Syria are behind the uprising. Anti-Assad activists accused the regime of setting off the blasts to discredit the opposition and to avert protests that had been planned in the city on Friday. Read the full story.

    Syrian TV via AFP - Getty Images

    Security forces and onlookers at the scene of a blast in Aleppo on Feb. 10, 2012.

    Syrian TV via AFP - Getty Images

    Bodies lying at the scene of a blast in Aleppo on Feb. 10, 2012.

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  • 5
    Feb
    2012
    9:28pm, EST

    Fire at Washington home kills husband, sons of missing woman

    Ted S. Warren / AP

    The smoldering remains of a house, left, where an explosion killed Josh Powell and his two sons, Sunday, Feb. 5, 2012, is shown from the air in Graham, Wash. The explosion occurred moments after a Child Protective Services worker brought the two boys to the home for a supervised visit. Powell's wife Susan went reportedly missing from their West Valley City, Utah, home in December 2009.

    John Froschauer / AP

    Eliana and her mother Jennifer Bakley hug while Melissa Phillips look over the smoldering remains of a house near Fredrickson, Wash., Sunday, Feb. 5, 2012, where, according to a sheriff's spokesman, three bodies were were found. The bodies are believed to be Josh Powell and his two sons. The explosion occurred moments after a Child Protective Services worker brought the two boys to the home for a supervised visit.

    John Froschauer / AP

    Pierce County Sheriff's deputies and Graham Firefighters work around the smoldering remains of a house near Fredrickson, Wash., Sunday, Feb. 5, 2012, where, according to a sheriff's spokesman, three bodies were were found. The bodies are believed to be Josh Powell and his two sons. The explosion occurred moments after a Child Protective Services worker brought the two boys to the home for a supervised visit.

    msnbc.com staff and news services:

    Authorities say the husband of a missing Utah woman intentionally set his Washington home on fire Sunday, killing him and his two young sons shortly after the boys were brought to the home by a social worker for a supervised visit.

    Neighbors had reported hearing an explosion, but Pierce County sheriff's spokesman Ed Troyer said Josh Powell's home was destroyed by a fast-moving fire that blew out several windows and was aided by some sort of accelerant. Read the full story.

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    We have been watching this story closely here in Utah. The fact that he had any access to these children after what happened with his wife, and his father, is in itself a crime! They knew this would happen. Susan's family stated it, and now it has happened. Too many times this @!$%#e happens. WAY TO …

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  • 8
    Dec
    2011
    10:19am, EST

    Syria says oil pipeline was blown up by rebel saboteurs

    SANA via Reuters

    Black smoke is seen rising from Homs refinery in Syria on Dec. 8, 2011 in this handout photograph released by Syria's national news agency. A pipeline carrying oil from the east of the country to a refinery in Homs was blown up on Thursday.

    Reuters reports from BEIRUT:

    A Syrian pipeline carrying oil from the east of the country to a vital refinery in Homs was blown up Thursday in what the official news agency SANA said was an act of sabotage by an armed terrorist group.

    Opposition activists said flames and clouds of thick black smoke were seen at the site of the explosion in a suburb of the city, the epicenter of popular unrest against Syrian President Bashar al-Assad that began in March.

    "This is the main pipeline that feeds the Homs refinery," said Rami Abdulrahman of the British-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights.

    The activist network also reported seven people killed in Homs Thursday by snipers and in "random" shootings.

    SANA said the pipeline was attacked in the Tal Asour area to the northwest of the refinery on the outskirts of Homs, a city of 800,000 where -- activists say -- about 1,500 people have been killed in the crackdown. Read the full story.

    Anonymous via Reuters

    Black smoke is seen rising from a pipeline in Homs on Dec. 8, 2011. The pipeline was blown up on Thursday, an activist group said.

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    I agree. We need to support this uprising at arms length. No need to give the Assad gov any reason to change the focus to us.

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