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| In Syrian Kurdish City, IS Suicide Car Bombings Kill 26 |
| 2015-09-15 |
| [ABCNEWS.GO] Two boom-mobileings, half an hour apart, killed 26 people on Monday in a predominantly Kurdish city in northeastern Syria, the country's state-owned media and activists reported, in an attack swiftly 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 Allaharound with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not reallyMoslems.... group. Among the victims of the kabooms in the city of Hassakeh were a woman and her two children and several Kurdish fighters, according to the Britannia-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights. The Islamic State group said in a statement that its two jacket wallahs targeted a gathering of Kurdish fighters and pro-regime militias. The bombers struck in two different Hassakeh neighborhoods. The state news agency SANA said at least 21 died in the bombing in the busy Mahatta neighborhood. Bodies were pulled from under the rubble of a collapsed building, the agency said, adding that the number of victims was likely to rise. The second bomber detonated his explosives-laden vehicle in Khashman district on Hassakeh's northern outskirts, killing five people, including the woman and her children, SANA said. Syrian state TV broadcast footage from the two-story building that collapsed in the al-Mahatta kaboom, which also left a large crater in the street. A man is seen holding a victim and weeping. The TV later said that authorities dismantled two other boom-mobiles in the province. The Observatory, which has a network of activists on the ground, said those killed included 13 civilians, six Kurdish fighters from the local police force and seven pro-government militia members. The group said the first attack, in Khashman, targeted a Kurdish police force, while the second hit a base for a pro-government militia. In a statement posted on social media, the Islamic State group said two of its fighters blew themselves up, one at in a graduation ceremony for Kurdish cadets and the other hit a base for the pro-government militia. Hassakeh has been scene of repeated attacks by IS holy warriors. Syrian Kurdish fighters are largely in control of the city, which has pockets of government forces. IS snuffies have been battling the Kurdish forces and government troops in the province for months. |
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