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Bloodshed in Syria as Assad's forces kill 13 'including four children' in shelling of rebel-held town shortly after Damascus bomb attack killed 14 on army bus
[Daily Mail, where America gets its news]
  • Two bombs killed 14 on army bus in the Syrian capital of Damascus this morning

  • A third bomb was defused

  • An hour later Syrian army shelling struck the rebel-held town of Ariha in Idlib province, killing 13

  • Rockets hit a busy market area and schools - with four children among dead

  • No group claimed responsibility for the bus attack, and terror attacks in Damascus have been rare since government forces drove ISIS out in 2018
Update from An Nahar about Idlib at 7:55 p.m. ET:
The Syrian government's main focus has been the northwestern region of Idlib, where many of the rebels forced to surrender in other parts of the country have gathered.

The area is dominated by the jihadist group Hayat Tahrir al-Sham, formerly al-Nusra, before that it was called something else
...al-Qaeda's Syrian affiliate, from which sprang the Islamic State...
 (HTS), which includes leaders of al-Qaeda's former Syria franchise and over which The Sick Man of Europe Turkey
...the occupiers of Greek Asia Minor...
 has some sway.

HTS has not claimed attacks in Damascus in years however.
Posted by: Skidmark 2021-10-20
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