- Two bombs killed 14 on army bus in the Syrian capital of Damascus this morning
- A third bomb was defused
- An hour later Syrian army shelling struck the rebel-held town of Ariha in Idlib province, killing 13
- Rockets hit a busy market area and schools - with four children among dead
- No group claimed responsibility for the bus attack, and terror attacks in Damascus have been rare since government forces drove ISIS out in 2018
| Update from An Nahar about Idlib at 7:55 p.m. ET: |
The area is dominated by the jihadist group Hayat Tahrir al-Sham, formerly al-Nusra, before that it was called something else
...al-Qaeda's Syrian affiliate, from which sprang the Islamic State...(HTS), which includes leaders of al-Qaeda's former Syria franchise and over which
...the occupiers of Greek Asia Minor...
has some sway.
HTS has not claimed attacks in Damascus in years however.