At least 20 people were killed in suicide and car bomb blasts, claimed by Islamic State, near Syria’s holiest Shia Muslim shrine in a Damascus suburb on Saturday. Syrians gather around burning buildings after a bomb attack at the Sayeda Zeinab suburb in Damascus, Syria on Saturday. Islamic State said two of its suicide bombers had blown themselves up and operatives had detonated an explosives-laden car, according to the IS-affiliated Amaq news agency. State television showed debris, mangled cars and wrecked shops in a main commercial thoroughfare near the Sayeda Zeinab shrine, in an area where at least three bomb attacks claimed by Islamic State have killed and wounded scores of people this year. Almost every Shia militia fighter bears insignia on his combat fatigues with the words “For your sake, Sayeda Zeinab”.

Source: Hindustan Times June 11, 2016 14:37 UTC