Explosion reported in Al-Mayadeen, within the Deir az Zor countryside, additionally wounds a number of individuals.
Not less than three individuals have been killed in a blast focusing on a police station within the japanese Syrian city of Al-Mayadeen, the SANA state information company has reported, citing a safety supply.
The explosion within the Deir az Zor countryside on Sunday additionally injured a number of individuals, the report stated, with out offering additional particulars.
A video verified by Al Jazeera’s fact-checking unit Sanad exhibits the aftermath of the explosion.
The incident came about a day after Syrian authorities said security forces killed three ISIL (ISIS) fighters and arrested 4 others in Aleppo. It was the primary time the interim authorities introduced such an operation in opposition to the armed group.
The raids, launched by the Common Safety Division in coordination with the Common Intelligence Directorate, focused a number of ISIL sleeper cells working throughout Aleppo, Syria’s Ministry of Inside stated in a press release on Saturday. One safety officer was killed within the operation, it stated.
Interim Syrian President Ahmed al-Sharaa, who assumed energy in Damascus in December, has lengthy opposed ISIL. His forces battled the group’s self-declared caliphate in the course of the Syrian warfare.
Al-Sharaa seized energy after his Hayat Tahrir al-Sham armed group led a lightning opposition offensive that toppled Syria’s longtime President Bashar al-Assad. Al-Sharaa lower ties with al-Qaeda in 2016.
The current operation comes simply months after Syrian authorities stated they’d foiled an ISIL bombing plot close to the Sayeda Zeinab shrine, a key pilgrimage website for Shia Muslims south of Damascus.
This additionally comes after US President Donald Trump surprised the world by saying on Tuesday that the US was going to lift sanctions on the nation – a transfer that Syrians hope will help their nation reintegrate into the worldwide financial system, and produce much-needed funding.