#suicide-bombing

#suicide-bombing

A suicide bomber targeted a group of Syrian police officers in the city of Aleppo killing one member of the security forces and wounding several others, the official news agency SANA reports. The incident, hours before the new year on Wednesday, follows the bombing of an Alawite mosque in Homs that killed at least eight people on Friday. The Aleppo governorate administration said the assailant blew himself up after officers approached to detain him in the city's Bab al-Faraj neighbourhood.

The attack on Saint Elias church in Damascus, the first major IS operation post-Assad, marks a significant escalation in violence and insecurity within Syria.