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| At least 25 Nusra members dead in mosque blast in Syria's Idlib |
| 2015-07-05 |
| [EN.ZAMANALWSL.NET] An kaboom at a mosque in Syria's Idlib province on Friday killed at least 25 members of the Al-Qaeda-linked Nusra Front, the British-based Observatory group said. The blast in the town of Ariha in northwestern Syria went off as members of the Nusra Front gathered at the mosque for iftar, the meal with which Moslems break their fast during the holy month of Ramadan. The U.K.-based activist group said the kaboom in Salem Mosque in Ariha also killed a senior non-Syrian member of the hardline group. Opposition-based social media websites had conflicting casualty figures with some saying more than 40 people were dead. No group announced responsibility for the blast, but supporters of the Nusra Front blamed rival ultra hardline ISIS snuffies who have fought the group on several frontlines in Syria. A coalition of rebel groups called Jaish al-Fatah, or the Army of Conquest, in which Nusra Front is a major part of its composition, have controlled most of Idlib province since the capture of the historic provincial capital in March. |
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