The attack took place early in the morning under the Hafez Al Assad bridge when the vehicle in which the uniformed soldiers were traveling was hit completely by the explosions
Terror hit central Damascus with a double explosion that killed at least thirteen soldiers. The attack occurred early in the morning under the Hafez Al Assad bridge when the vehicle in which the uniformed officers were traveling was hit completely by the explosions, the Sana agency reported. Despite more than ten years of war in Syria, such actions are not common in Damascus, a city armored by forces loyal to President Bashar Al Assad.
This attack is the most serious in the capital since March 2017 when 31 people died in an operation claimed by the jihadist group Islamic State (IS). Then a suicide bomber dressed in a military uniform blew up the explosive charge he was concealing in the crowded Hamidiye courthouse, near the capital’s bazaar.
Assad and his allies have long proclaimed their military victory, but Syria is far from the country it was until 2011. Idlib province remains outside the control of Damascus, in the hands of armed opposition groups and under the protection of Turkey and the United States. it keeps its troops in the northeast, alongside the Kurdish militias. This attack in Damascus occurred a few hours after the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (OSDH) reported the death of at least eight people, including several children, in the town of Ariha, in Idlib, as a result of a bombing by the Army.
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