Bombing At Jihadist Munition Depot Kills 11 In North Syria: Monitor
Umer Jamshaid Published January 19, 2019 | 01:18 AM
Beirut, (APP - UrduPoint / Pakistan Point News - 18th Jan, 2019 ) :A bombing at an ammunition depot killed 11 people on Friday in the jihadist-held city of Idlib in northwestern Syria, a Britain-based war monitor said.
It targeted the arms store belonging to Hayat Tahrir al-Sham, an alliance led by Syria's former Al-Qaeda affiliate, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said.
The blast killed seven HTS fighters and four other people, the war monitor said.
"Initial information points to a car bomb," Observatory chief Rami Abdel Rahman said.
HTS controls the city of Idlib, as well as the surrounding anti-regime bastion of the same name.
Last week, the jihadist-led alliance took administrative control of the whole of the region -- which is made up of a large part of the Idlib province, as well as adjacent chunks of the Aleppo and Hama provinces.
But the Islamic State group also have a presence in the area.
Abdel Rahman said IS was likely responsible for the bombing, after HTS executed members of the extremist group the previous day.
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