Credit: Reuters/SANA/Handout via Reuters
Syria's President Bashar al-Assad heads the plenary meeting of the central committee of the ruling al-Baath party, in Damascus in this handout photograph distributed by Syria's national news agency SANA July 8, 2013.
Islam Alloush of the rebel Liwa al-Islam Brigade told Reuters earlier on Thursday that rebels fired rockets which hit Assad's motorcade as he was heading to attend the prayers at Anas bin Malek Mosque in the Malki district, where his residence is located.
Other activists also reported rockets were fired into the Malki area. Assad appeared unharmed in the footage.
(Reporting by Khaled Yacoub Oweis, editing by Elizabeth Piper)
