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Syria-Lebanon-Iran
Suicide bomber strikes Syria's Manbij, injures 8: MMC
2019-03-10
[Rudaw] A jacket wallah blew up a car near the tomb of Sheikh Aqeel in Syria’s Manbij on Sunday,
...a typo, as elsewhere the attack is reported as occurring on Saturday 9 March 2019...
the Manbij Military Council (MMC) media office has confirmed.

According to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, a UK-based war monitor, a jihadist targeted a convoy that included an armored US military vehicle.

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....
 group (ISIS), via its Amaq media outlet, claimed it had attacked four US military vehicles in a convoy on the road between Manbij and al-Bab.

Col Sean Ryan, spokesperson for the US-led anti-ISIS coalition, told Rudaw via email that no US forces have been killed or injured.

The MMC published several photos of the aftermath of the kaboom on its Facebook page, but is yet to release a detailed statement.

Sharfan Darwish, spokesperson for the MMC, told The News Agency that Dare Not be Named the kaboom had targeted a passing military vehicle. Seven civilians and one soldier were maimed.

According to the Kurdish People's Protection Units (YPG) affiliated ANHA, several people were maimed when a suicide bomber went kaboom! inside a car at a road crossing near a busy market southeast of the city.

The media agency said those injured are civilians.

ISIS grabbed credit for an attack in January which killed 19, including two US soldiers and two US civilians.

This is a developing story... Last updated 7.18 p.m.
The Times of Israel adds:
The attack is the third in the past two months targeting the US-led coalition and its allies in northern Syria.

On January 16, four Americans were among 19 people killed in a suicide attack in the city claimed by IS.

Manbij is a former IS stronghold that is now held by a military council affiliated to the SDF.

The city constitutes a major point of contention between Syria’s Kurdish minority, which maintains de facto autonomy in parts of northern and northeastern Syria, and neighboring Turkey.
Al Masdar shares ISIS’ claim:
According to the Islamic State’s official media wing, the terrorist Abu Abbas al-Shami carried out the suicide kaboom along the Manbij Highway in eastern Aleppo.

ISIS claimed the suicide attack resulted in the destruction of a vehicle and the death of three American soldiers onboard.
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