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Syria's new government says it thwarted Islamic State attack on Shia shrine (www.middleeasteye.net)

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The new Syrian government announced on Saturday that it had foiled an attack by the Islamic State group (IS) targeting the Sayyida Zeinab Shia shrine in the south of the Syrian capital, Damascus.

A Syrian intelligence source, quoted by the official Sana news agency, said that security forces "managed to foil an attempt by IS to carry out a bomb attack inside the mausoleum of Sayyida Zeinab".

The source added that several people had been arrested.

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[–] emergencyfood 4 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

Isn't the new Syrian government an ex-IS offshoot?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 hours ago

No, no, no... Just because all ranking officials of the party were specifically on the US terror list for associations with ISIS and ISIS-k, and just because the leader literally was the leader of ISIS-k; that doesn't mean they're just an offshoot of ISIS that incidentally does the West's bidding.