Scores killed in suicide bombing in southwestern Syria

Heavily damaged buildings are seen at a marketplace after the Assad Regime carried out air strikes in Idlib Syria on 23 March 2018 [Ahmed Rahhal/Anadolu Agency]

Dozens of people were killed in a suicide bombing in southwestern Syria today, the Syrian Arab News Agency (SANA) reported.

A suicide bomber targeted a marketplace in the regime-controlled city of Sweida, according to SANA.

“Competent authorities” pursued two other suicide bombers and managed to kill them before they committed more bombings, and also killed a Daesh terrorist in the city’s Al-Maslakh area, SANA reported.

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Local sources told the Anadolu Agency that at least 38 people lost their lives in the suicide attack.

Syria has only just begun to emerge from a devastating conflict that began in 2011 when the Assad regime cracked down on demonstrators with unexpected ferocity. President Bashar Al-Assad has been able to regain control of most of the country as a result of the support he has received from Russia.

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