NATO detects new Scud-type missile launches in Syria - source

SYRIA-NATO:NATO detects new Scud-type missile launches in Syria - source

December 21, 2012 / 15:50 IST

BRUSSELS (Reuters) - NATO chief Anders Fogh Rasmussen on Friday condemned Syria's firing of short-range missiles after a NATO source said allied surveillance had detected new launches of Scud-type missiles in Syria this week.
The source said there had been multiple launches of the missiles inside Syria on Thursday morning, more than a week after the alliance first detected Scuds being fired during Syria's 21-month-old civil war.
Rasmussen said NATO strongly regretted the missile launches. "I consider (them) acts of a desperate regime approaching collapse," he told reporters at NATO headquarters.
(Reporting by Adrian Croft)

first published: Dec 21, 2012 03:50 pm

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