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Syria: On-the-run Isis hits back with suicide blast in Damascus
Disaster prompts president to lift moratorium on death penalty, a move human rights groups say is ‘a retreat into barbarism’
ISLAMIC STATE (Isis) claimed responsibility for a suicide car bombing that killed at least 10 people in the Syrian capital Damascus yesterday.
The blast hit the Police Club, where officers’ families were staying, in the Masaken Barzeh district, on a busy street close to a fruit and vegetable market.
Isis claimed the bombing in a statement circulated by its followers on Twitter, saying it was carried out by a terrorist known as Abu Abdul-Rahman al-Shami.
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