It was one of the deadliest attacks on the Syrian army in recent years. It said it would respond “with full force and decisiveness”.
At least 100 people were killed and 240 wounded in the Syrian city of Homs when a drone attack hit a packed military graduation ceremony on Thursday.
A Syrian man injured in a drone attack that hit a packed military graduation ceremony in the central city of Homs, Syria.In an earlier statement, the military said drones laden with explosives targeted the ceremony packed with young officers and their families as it was wrapping up. It accused insurgents “backed by known international forces” of the attack, without naming any particular group.
While most Arab governments have restored ties with the government in Damascus, the country remains divided. A north-west enclave is under the control of al-Qaeda-linked militants from the Hayat Tahrir al-Sham group and Turkish-backed opposition fighters, and the north-east is under control of US-backed Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces.
A White Helmet civil defence worker runs at the site where a shell struck in the outskirts of the northern town of Jisr al-Shoughour, west of the city of Idlib, Syria, on Thursday.The dead were an older woman and four of her children, according to the Observatory. Nine other members of the family were wounded, it said.
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