Syrian security forces raided a ”terrorist hideout” near a Palestinian refugee camp and recovered weapons belonging to men who attacked the Damascus diplomatic quarter of with a bomb and gunfire last night, officials said.

Four people were killed and two wounded when gunmen and police fought an armed battle in a diplomatic quarter of the Syrian capital Damascus, officials said.

US AIRCRAFT and tanks pounded the besieged Iraqi city of Fallujah last night as a series of blasts rocked the Syrian capital of Damascus.