[ARA News] Three boom-mobileings have struck Damascus, killing 20 people in one of the blasts, in the biggest such attack in the Syrian capital since March.One of the jacket wallahs on Sunday went
kaboom!at Tahrir Square near Bab Touma in central Damascus after being encircled by the authorities.
According to a letter sent by the Syrian Foreign Ministry to the UN secretary-general, the number of casualties had gone up to 20.
Two other car kaboomers were pursued and detonated by security forces on the road to Damascus airport southeast of the city, Syrian state media reported.
State TV said the casualty toll had been minimised because the security forces had prevented "the gunnies from reaching their targets", saying they had aimed to target busy areas on the first day back to work after the Eid al-Fitr holiday.
Footage broadcast by state TV from Tahrir Square showed roads scattered with debris, several badly damaged cars, and another one that had been turned into a pile of twisted metal.
Damascus has been spared the large-scale battles that have devastated other major Syrian cities during the country’s six-year civil war. However,
the difference between stupidity and genius is that genius has its limits...
dozens of people have been killed in bombings, particularly on the outskirts of the city.
In mid-March, kabooms on a courthouse and restaurant in Damascus killed 32 people. They were 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....
of Iraq and the Levant (ISIS) group. That came days after two kabooms that left 74 dead in the capital’s Old City and were claimed by the Hayat Tahrir al-Sham alliance, led by the former al-Qaeda affiliate Jabhat Fateh al-Sham
...formerly al-Nusra, the current false nose and mustache of al-Qaeda in the Levant...
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The fatalities occurred when a bomber detonated his explosives-laden vehicle in Tahrir square in central Damascus, the sources said on condition of anonymity due to restrictions on speaking to media.
Fifteen people were also injured in the bombing, the sources said.