A car bomb exploded near the police headquarters in central Damascus yesterday, killing at least one person and damaging buildings, Syria’s state-run news agency said.

ISRAEL lifted its official veil of silence over last month’s strike in Syria yesterday, as army radio said the Jewish state carried out the attack deep inside its arch foe’s territory.

SYRIA said yesterday it had chosen to support the Iraqi people against the “illegal” US-British invasion of Iraq, following a new warning against Damascus from US Secretary of State Colin Powell.