BEIRUT (AP) — Gunmen killed the brother of Syria’s parliament speaker as he drove to work in Damascus on Tuesday, the state-run news agency reported, as the international envoy for Syria warned the country could become another Somalia.Mohammed Osama Laham, brother of Parliament Speaker Jihad Laham, was killed in the Damascus neighborhood of Midan, the SANA news agency said.It was the latest in a wave of assassinations targeting Syrian officials, army officers and other prominent supporters of President Bashar Assad’s regime. Four of the president’s top security aides were killed in a rebel bombing of state security headquarters in Damascus on July 18.The killing came a day after some of the most intense fighting in Damascus in months as rebels wage a civil war to unseat Assad.U.N.-Arab League envoy Lakhdar Brahimi said what is happening in Syria is a “big catastrophe.” In remarks published Tuesday in the pan-Arab daily Al Hayat, he said the international efforts now are focused on getting a “binding resolution by the (U.N.) Security Council” to start a political process that will lead to change.Continue Reading…
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