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Syria-Lebanon-Iran
Car bombs kill at least six in Syrian camp near Jordan border
2017-05-17
(IraqiNews) Two boom-mobiles killed at least six people and maimed several others in Syria’s sprawling Rukban refugee camp near the border with Jordan late on Monday, a rebel official and a resident said, in an attack claimed by the Islamic State
...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not really Moslems....
holy warrior group.

One kaboom was near a restaurant and the second targeted the camp’s market nearby, they said.

"There are at least six civilians dead and the number is expected to rise," said Mohammad Adnan, a rebel official from Jaish Ahrar al-Ashair who runs the policing of the camp.

Islamic State said in a statement on its Amaq news agency its fighters "carried out the Rukban camp attack", according to the U.S.-based SITE monitoring group. It gave no further details.

In January, a boom-mobile killed a number of people in the camp, and Islamic State hard boyz have since launched attacks on Syrian rebels in the area.

Rukban, near the joint Syria-Iraq-Jordan border, is home to refugees and also to rebel groups, including the Jaish Ahrar al-Ashair, which fight both Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir Pencilneck al-Assad
Despoiler of Deraa...
and the Islamic State movement. It was also hit by kabooms last year.
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