[Rudaw] The Islamic State...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that they were al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're really 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 western pols talk they're not
reallyMoslems....
(ISIS) on Wednesday grabbed credit for a deadly boom-mobile on a cop shoppe in the capital of Damascus that killed a policeman.
A car went
kaboom!in northern Damascus at the Barzeh cop shoppe on Wednesday morning, killing a lieutenant colonel and injuring four others, the Syrian interior ministry said.
"Investigations are underway to discover the circumstances behind the incident," the ministry’s statement added.
ISIS later grabbed credit for the attack on its Telegram channels, saying that its members had managed to booby trap a car and went
kaboom!it at a cop shoppe.
Attacks by terrorist groups in Damascus are rare as Syrian Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir
Pencilneckal-Assad
Oppressor of the Syrians and the Lebs...
’s regime has managed to retake control over areas near the capital that were under the control of rebels.
The UK-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights blamed the blast on ISIS and said that it injured seven people, including some at death's door.