Death toll from IS bombings in Syria hits 154

AFP, BEIRUT: The death toll from a wave of bombings claimed by the Islamic State group in the heartland of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad’s regime has risen to 154, a monitor said on Tuesday. More than 300 people were also wounded in the Monday attacks in the Mediterranean coastal cities of Jableh and Tartus, some of them critically, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said. Most of the dead were civilians, among them eight children. The two cities, which are majority Alawite—the offshoot of Shiite Islam followed by Assad—had been relatively insulated from Syria’s five-year civil war.

Death toll from IS bombings in Syria hits 154

AFP, BEIRUT: The death toll from a wave of bombings claimed by the Islamic State group in the heartland of Syrian President Bashar al-Assads regime has risen to 154, a monitor said on Tuesday. More than 300 people were also wounded in the Monday attacks in the Mediterranean coastal cities of Jableh and Tartus, some of them critically, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said. Most of the dead were civilians, among them eight children. The two cities, which are majority Alawitethe offshoot of Shiite Islam followed by Assadhad been relatively insulated from Syrias five-year civil war.