ISIS claims responsibility for multiple blasts in Syria and Yemen
Islamic State suicide bombers orchestrated deadly back-to-back attacks in the Middle East early Monday, killing a combined 110 people at bus stations in Syria and an army recruitment center in Yemen, writes the NY Daily News.
The terrorists claimed responsibility for blasts that rocked Yemen’s southern city of Aden and a second string of explosions in the Syrian coastal cities of Tartus and Jableh through a news agency linked to ISIS.
A Syrian state TV report said at least 65 people were killed by a rocket attack in Jableh and when a suicide bomber on foot, followed by a car bomber, attacked a packed bus station in Tartus.
According to the source, the bombings in Yemen targeted young men seeking to join the army.
The car bomber targeted a line of people outside an army recruitment center, killing at least 20. The pedestrian bomber detonated his explosive vest among recruits waiting outside an army commander’s home, resulting in at least 25 deaths.
Scores of others were wounded, according to officials, who spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to brief the media.