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| Suicide attack targets Syrian regime’s official in Damascus | ||
| 2015-05-05 | ||
| Damascus, Syria – On Monday, a twin bomb attack hit the district of Rukn al-Din northern the capital Damascus, targeting senior officer in the Syrian regime’s army, causing panic among security forces who closed the entrances and exits of the neighborhood. Media activist Zain al-Dimashqi told ARA News in Damascus that the two bomb attacks in Rukn al-Din targeted the head of Logistics and Supply Branch in the Syrian regime’s army, Major General Mohammed Eid. “At least one person was killed, and five others were injured as a result of attacks,” the source added. Local sources said that one of the bodyguards of General Mohammed Eid was killed in the attack and two others were reportedly injured, including Eid himself –who was accordingly transferred to Tishreen Military Hospital in Damascus.
...formally Jabhat an-Nusrah li-Ahli sh-Sham (Support Front for the People of the Levant), also known as al-Qaeda in the Levant. They aim to establish a pan-Arab caliphate. Not the same one as the Islamic State, though .. ... Front grabbed credit on Monday for a suicide kaboom hours earlier on a regime-controlled neighborhood in Damascus, the group said via Twitter.
... and if you can't believe state television who can you believe? the security forces had killed all the members of "a terrorist group" in the bustling Rukn al Din district during a chase after a jacket wallah went kaboom!. The source did not say whether there were any casualties but a resident contacted by Viber said the army had sealed off the main streets of the congested part of the capital adjacent to key government installations and embassies. Security forces detained scores of people after the kaboom rocked the dense residential and commercial quarter, which is a main crossroad of the city and is home to many Syrian Kurds. | ||
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