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March 14, 2017       Share:    

Source: https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/middle_east/al-qaida-linked-group-claims-deadly-attack-in-syrian-capital/2017/03/12/bf2377c8-0733-11e7-bd19-fd3afa0f7e2a_story.html

Al-Qaeda-Linked Group Claims Damascus Bombings as Message to Iran

(AP-Washington Post) Bassem Mroue - The Levant Liberation Committee, an al-Qaeda-linked group, claimed responsibility Sunday for twin suicide blasts near holy shrines frequented by Shiites in the Syrian capital Damascus that killed at least 40 people and wounded over a hundred on Saturday. The Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said the death toll had reached 74. The Levant Liberation Committee, dominated by Fatah al-Sham, said the blasts were a message to "Iran and its militias."

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