Daesh says hits Syria’s Raqqa with car bomb
A car bomb exploded near a military position in Syria’s Raqqa on Sunday,
local authorities and a war monitor said, and Daesh said it was behind
the blast.
The blast came a day after the assassination of a local council leader
in the city, the former Syrian capital of the militant group’s
self-declared caliphate, which was seized a year ago by US-backed
Kurdish-led fighters.
Raqqa security forces said a civilian had been killed and several
people, including civilians and fighters injured. The war monitor, the
Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, said the blast caused “a large
number” of casualties.
Daesh said in a statement that it had detonated the bomb, targeting
fighters from the Kurdish YPG militia, the strongest element in the
US-backed Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) group that drove the militants
from Raqqa last year.
The SDF is battling Daesh fighters in one of their last patches of
territory in Syria, along the north bank of the Euphrates river close to
the Iraqi border.
The militants took advantage of bad weather on Sunday to attack SDF
positions, killing a dozen fighters, the Observatory reported.
Syrian state television reported on Sunday that the Syrian army was
assaulting the militants’ other remaining pocket of ground in the desert
area in Sweida province in southern Syria.
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