Syrian intelligence officials announced Saturday that they had foiled an Islamic State (IS) plan to bomb the Sayyida Zeinab shrine, a Shiite pilgrimage site in a Damascus suburb. The General ...

DAMASCUS – Syria’s Intelligence Directorate foiled an attack by the ISIS group on the Sayeda Zeinab shrine in a ... before they could detonate an explosion inside the shrine.

In 2023, an explosion from a motorcycle ... at a Shiite shrine in Sayyida Zeinab, a suburb of Damascus, The Associated Press reported on Saturday, citing Syrian state media. Syria’s state ...

Syria’s Intelligence Directorate foiled an attack by the Islamic State group on the Sayeda Zeinab shrine in a Damascus suburb ... of the cell were arrested before they could detonate an explosion ...

Syria's Intelligence Directorate foiled an attack by the Islamic State group on the Sayeda Zeinab shrine in a Damascus suburb ... before they could detonate an explosion inside the shrine.

The foiled attack will stoke fears that Islamic State is hoping to stage a comeback in Syria following the fall last month of President Bashar al-Assad.

ERBIL — Syria's General Intelligence Directorate has foiled a planned attack by the Islamic State (IS) on the Sayeda Zeinab shrine, a major pilgrimage site for Shi'ite Muslims located in a Damascus ...

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 ...