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Bus blast in eastern Syria kills at least 5 defense ministry staff; ISIS suspected
[IsraelTimes] Attack on bus carrying oil facility guards is similar to terror group’s behavior during civil war; jihadist attacks on government relatively rare since Assad regime’s fall
A blast targeting a bus in Syria’s eastern province of Deir Ezzor on Thursday killed at least five defense ministry personnel, an official from the ministry told AFP.
"An bomb detonated as a bus carrying oil facility guards affiliated with the defense ministry passed by, killing five of them and wounding 13 others, including civilian bystanders," the official said, requesting anonymity.
State television said a blast hit a bus on the road between the cities of Deir Ezzor and Mayadeen, some 50 kilometers (30 miles) away.
No group immediately grabbed credit for the attack, but the Britannia-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said the perpetrators were "likely affiliated" with an 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....
cell.
ISIS jihadists, once in control of large swaths of Iraq and Syria, were territorially defeated in Syria in 2019 in a battle spearheaded by the US-backed, Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) with support from an international coalition.
During Syria’s civil war, which erupted in 2011, ISIS carried out similar attacks on buses targeting the forces of former ruler Bashir
Pencilneckal-Assad
Oppressor of the Syrians and the Lebs...
Since the new Islamist-led authorities took power after Assad’s December ouster, jihadist attacks on government-controlled areas have been scarce.
In May, ISIS claimed its first attack on the new forces, with the Observatory saying one member of Syrian army personnel was killed and three others maimed.
The following month, authorities accused ISIS of being behind a deadly suicide kaboom in a Damascus church that killed 25 people, though the group never grabbed credit.