AMMAN :Islamic State militants claimed responsibility for car and suicide bomb blasts that killed at least eight people and injured scores in a suburb of the Syrian capital Damascus on Saturday, the IS-affiliated Amaq news agency said.
The Sayeda Zeinab suburb contains Syria’s holiest Shi’ite shrine and is a base for Shi’ite militant groups from Lebanon and Iraq who are on the side of President Bashar al-Assad in the country’s five-year-old civil war.
Amaq news agency said that in Saturday’s attack, militants detonated an explosives-laden car in Sayeda Zeinab while two suicide bombers blew themselves up nearby. Syrian state media showed footage of wide-scale damage in a busy marketplace.
