President Bashar al-Assad during a visit to Brazil. (Wikimedia Commons)

The Syrian government and anti-government rebels accused each other of an attack on a pro-government television station in a Damascus suburb that killed employees and destroyed the station before dawn Wednesday morning, according to The New York Times.

If pro-government forces are responsible for the attack, it would indicate a large problem within President Bashar al-Assad's circle, just as he claimed that his country was in a state of war.  

The New York Times reports that the television station attack comes amid "increasingly bold and organized rebel assaults in the Damascus area and an increased pace of high-level military defections."

Kofi Annan, the special envoy to Syria from the United Nations, has planned to represent what he calls the "countries of influence" in the Syrian conflict at a meeting on Saturday in Geneva.  He was not able to include Iran on the list of invitees, despite their strong allegiance to Syria.   

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