Author: Unknown
Published on: 11/01/2025 | 00:00:00
AI Summary:
Intelligence and security forces “succeeded in thwarting an attempt by ISIL to carry out a bombing inside the Sayyida Zeinab shrine”, a source within Syria’s intelligence agency said. The interior ministry posted pictures of four men it said were members of an ISIL cell who had been arrested in the countryside outside the capital. ISIL also previously targeted the Damascus shrine, Syria’s most visited Shia pilgrimage site. ISIL claimed responsibility for a double suicide attack in February 2016 close to the mausoleum that killed 134 people. Shia shrines have been frequent target of attacks by Sunni groups such as ISIL.
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