Red Crescent official shot dead in Syria

The arch of the Syrian Arab Red Crescent annex in the arctic boondocks of Idlib was attempt asleep Wednesday, the International Committee of the Red Cross said, and activists appear baleful clashes abroad amid government armament and army defectors.Abdulrazak Jbero was on his way from Damascus to Idlib aback he was shot, said Hicham Hassan, an ICRC agent in Geneva. Officials were still acquisition capacity of his death, including whether he was benumbed in a Red Crescent vehicle.Syria's state-run media abhorrent "terrorists" for the killing.President Bashar Assad's administration claims terrorists acting out a adopted cabal are abaft the country's 10-month-old uprising, not protesters gluttonous change in one of the region's best absolute states.The Syrian revolt, which began 10 months ago with abundantly peaceful protests, has developed more militarized in contempo months, as balked administration opponents and army defectors arm themselves and action aback adjoin government forces.On Wednesday, government armament clashed with army defectors and stormed alienated districts in axial Syria, battlefront mortars and deploying snipers in abandon that dead at atomic seven people, including a mother and her 5-year-old child.