MidnightWatcher – Prophecy in Motion

“(CNN) — Army defectors in northwestern Syria — armed with rocket-propelled grenades — attacked a pro-government youth group office and clashed with Syrian security personnel Thursday, activist groups said.

Security forces also arrested dozens during raids in Harasta, the location of the air intelligence base outside Damascus that was attacked a day before by the Free Syrian Army, a band of military defectors confronting Syrian President Bashar al-Assad’s regime.

The developments stoke fears that the violence will spread.

‘This was quite similar to a true civil war,’ Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said Thursday about the strike on the air intelligence base.

The defectors Thursday targeted the Revolutionary Youth Association office in the Idlib province town of Maaret Al Nu’man, and fought Syrian security personnel at the scene, according to the the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights and the Local Coordination Committees of Syria.

The groups didn’t identify the assailants as Free Syrian Army members.

There was no word of casualties in the Maaret Al Nu’man incident, but security personnel killed at least 12 people across Syria and explosions and gunfire rocked the suburbs of the capital Damascus, the LCC said.” Read more.

‘Syrian army planting mines along Jordanian border’ – “The Syrian army planted landmines at the border with Jordan in order to ‘restrict Syrians access to humanitarian asylum in Jordan,’ a week after reports that Syria was laying explosives on the border with Lebanon as well, Jordanian daily Al Ghad reported Wednesday. Syria was laying mines on its border with the Hashemite Kingdom in order to prevent Syrian evacuees from the Deraa governate and the city of Ramtha from entering Jordan, according to an informed source speaking on condition of anonymity to Al Ghad. ‘[Syrians] are fleeing the deteriorating security situation in their country,’ the source said according to Al Ghad. Tensions between Jordan and Syria have hit a low since King Abdullah II called on Syrian President Bashar Assad to step down, and Syrian activists loyal to their president stormed the Jordanian mission in Damascus.” Read more.