SANA news agency reported that mortar shells fired by Lions of Islam at al-Zablatani area and Damascus Sheraton Hotel killed a civilian and injured 14 others.
The agency quoted a source at the Police command as saying that Lions of Islam of the so called "Jaish al-Islam
...Liwa al-Islam (Brigade of Islam) was established by Zahran Alloush, the son of Saudi-based religious scholar Abdullah Mohammed Alloush, after Syrian authorities released him from prison in mid-2011 where he had been serving time for his Salafist activism. The group claimed responsibility for carrying out the July 2012 Damascus bombing that killed Defense Minister Dawoud Rajiha, Deputy Defense Minister Asef Shawkat, and Assistant Vice President Hassan Turkmani. It was a driving force behind actions in the Damascus region. It cooperated and conducted joint operations with al-Nusra. In Sptember 2013 Saudi Arabia engineered Liwa al-Islam's merger with fifty other more or less Salafist groups as a counterweight to al-Nusra, which the Learned Elders of Islam considered was growing too powereful..." fired three shells landed in al-Zablatani residential area, causing the death of one civilian and injury of 13 others in addition to material damage inflicted upon three cars.
The source added that another mortar shell fell in the vicinity of Damascus Sheraton Hotel leaving a dustman injured. Another mortar shell also landed in Bab Touma neighborhood caused material damage in one of the houses.
Elsewhere in in Qamishli, 80 km to the north of the Eastern Hasaka province, three other persons were maimed when an bomb went in the area.
Terrorists detonated an bomb which they had earlier planted on a bicycle parked in front of al-Bayan school at the center of Qamishli city, a source in Hasaka province told SANA news hound.
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State television also reported the two kabooms.
Kurdish activist Arin Shekhmos said the first blast had targeted a YPG car on patrol but that the maimed were civilians. He said the second blast hit a market area and that three civilians had been maimed.
Qamishli is Syria's biggest Kurdish-majority city, and considered by the Kurds to be the capital of Hasakeh province. The city has been targeted by bombings before, with 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
Allaharound with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not
reallyMoslems....
group believed to be behind the attacks.