On Thursday, Twin bomb blasts in the Syrian capital of Damascus killed 40 people and wounded more than 170. One of the explosions hit a district that houses a well known military intelligence complex involved in Syrian President Assad's crackdown on a 14-month uprising. Thursday's explosions came a day after a bomb exploded near UN monitors observing implementation of a UN ceasefire plan and less than two weeks after Syrian authorities said a suicide bomber killed at least nine people in Damascus.