Syria's Interior Minister Mohammad Ibrahim al-Shaar has been transferred to the Lebanese capital Beirut to continue treatment of injuries sustained in a bomb attack in Damascus. But mystery surrounds the exact circumstances of the incident; activists say the minister's convoy was targeted, but Syrian state television claims the bombing occurred at the gate of his ministry's headquarters.

Syria's Interior Minister Mohammad Ibrahim al-Shaar has been transferred to the Lebanese capital Beirut to continue treatment of injuries sustained in a bomb attack in Damascus. But mystery surrounds the exact circumstances of the incident; activists say the minister's convoy was targeted, but Syrian state television claims the bombing occurred at the gate of his ministry's headquarters.