8 p.m.Syrian state TV says the suicide attack on a police station in Damascus has killed 17 civilians and police. Syria’s government is battling the Islamic State group as well as other insurgents as part of a complex, six-year-old civil war. ___4:30 p.m.Syria’s Interior Ministry says several police officers and civilians were killed in a suicide attack on a police station in central Damascus. The Al-Ikhbariyeh TV station says the bomber detonated his vehicle in front of a police station in the capital’s al-Midan neighborhood. Hezbollah and other pro-government forces are battling the Islamic State group in eastern Syria.

Source: Egypt Independent October 02, 2017 17:03 UTC