ISIS Claims Responsibility For Attack On Shrine Town Near Syria’s Dama…
On July 28, ISIS claimed responsibility for a bombing that targeted the Shia shrine town of Sayyidah Zaynab near the Syrian capital, Damascus, on the eve of the annual Shia Ashura commemoration.
In a statement released by its official news agency, Amaq, the terrorist group said that some of its fighters breached tight security imposed by government forces guarding the town that is named after the shrine for Sayida Zeinab, the granddaughter of the Prophet Muhammad and the daughter of Imam Ali.
“The soldiers of the Caliphate were able to park and detonate a motorcycle bomb … during a gathering of Shia pilgrims,” the statement reads.
The terrorist group alleged that ten people were killed and 40 others were wounded in the bombing, contradicting Syrian authorities who put the death toll at six and said that only 20 people were killed.
In the same statement, the group also claimed responsibility for a bus bombing that wounded two people in Sayyidah Zaynab just two days earlier.
Ashura is the 10th day of the Islamic month of Muharram, which is one of the holiest months for Shia Muslims. It marks the martyrdom of the Prophet Muhammad’s grandson, Imam Hussein, and his 72 companions in the battle of Karbala in the 7th century in present-day Iraq. The day marks the peak of the mourning procession.
Sayyidah Zaynab was the target of several terrorist attacks in the past. During 2016, three bombings by ISIS claimed the lives of more than 200 people.
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