DAMASCUS: A suicide attack on Friday at a security checkpoint in Syria’s east killed one police officer, state media said, blaming the bombing on the Daesh group.
A second would-be assailant was killed by security forces, the official news agency SANA reported.
“A suicide bomber of the terrorist organization Daesh attacked the Siyasiyeh checkpoint” in the eastern Deir Ezzor province, SANA said.
“The forces at the checkpoint killed one of the assailants, but the second one blew himself up,” it reported, adding that “a member of the internal security forces was martyred in the suicide attack.”
Daesh seized large areas of Syria and neighboring Iraq in 2014, before being territorially defeated in Syria in 2019, but has since maintained sleeper cells in remote desert areas and continues to carry out sporadic attacks.
On Saturday SANA reported that a car bomb exploded in Damascus without causing casualties.
Suicide bombing kills Syrian police officer
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Suicide bombing kills Syrian police officer
- Attack at a security checkpoint in Syria’s east blamed on Daesh group
Israeli forces kill Palestinian teenager near Bethlehem
- The 17-year-old was taken to a local health center but died soon after
- Over 1,000 Palestinians, including militants, have been killed in the occupied West Bank by Israeli forces or settlers since the start of the Gaza war in late 2023
LONDON: The Palestinian Ministry of Health confirmed that Israeli forces killed a Palestinian teenager in Tuqu town, southeast of Bethlehem, on Monday.
Tayseer Abu Mifreh, head of Tuqu’s council, said Israeli soldiers raided the village and fired indiscriminately, seriously injuring Ammar Yaser Sabbah with a live round to the chest. According to Wafa news agency, the 17-year-old was taken to a local health center for first aid, but he died from his injury soon after.
Over 1,000 Palestinians, including militants, have been killed in the occupied West Bank by Israeli forces or settlers since the start of the Gaza war in late 2023, according to the Palestinian Health Ministry.
During the same period, 43 Israelis, including soldiers, have been killed in Palestinian attacks in the West Bank, according to official Israeli figures.
