Syrian authorities on Monday denied President Ahmed al-Sharaa had been targeted in any security incident, while two sources told AFP a shooting took place in Damascus’s presidential palace last week.For days, social media users have been circulating reports of gunfire on December 30 at the palace, which overlooks the capital -- and Sharaa has not been seen in public since then.For all the latest headlines, follow our Google News channel online or via the app.But interior ministry spokesman Noureddine al-Baba said “reports claiming a security incident targeted” Sharaa or other senior figures were “totally baseless.”“We categorically affirm that these claims are entirely false,” he said.A diplomat from a country that supports Syria’s new authorities told AFP on condition of anonymity that “a shooting took place at the presidential palace on the evening of December 30.”Separately, Rami Abdel Rahman, head of the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights monitor, told AFP a shooting inside the