French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius said Wednesday that a suicide bombing that killed two top Syrian security officials showed the urgent need for a political transition in the country.

French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius said Wednesday that a suicide bombing that killed two top Syrian security officials showed the urgent need for a political transition in the country.

"The French government, without knowing the circumstances of this attack, has always condemned terrorism. That said, given the level of violence, this makes it even more necessary and urgent to find a political transition," Fabius told the French Senate.

"We do not yet know the exact circumstances in which this attack took place," Fabius said. "It is an act of extreme importance, this shows the level of violence that has been reached even in Damascus."

The attack, which for the first time in a 16-month violent opposition moves managed to strike at the inner core of Bashar al-Assad's regime, killed defense minister General Daoud Rajha and his deputy Assef Shawkat, Assad's brother-in-law, Syrian state media said.