2015 Homs car bombing

The 2015 Homs car bombing was a twin-explosion car bombing that killed 16 and injured many more. It occurred near a hospital in al-Zahra, an Alawite populated, government-controlled Neighborhood east of Homs' old city. The attack came five days after the government and rebels agreed on a local ceasefire in the western al-Waer suburb.[1][2][3]

Homs car bombing
Part of Syrian Civil War
LocationHoms, Syria
Date12 December 2015
Attack type
Car bombs
Deaths16
Perpetrators Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant

References
  1. "Blasts near hospital in Syria's Homs city kill 16". Reuters. December 12, 2015 – via www.reuters.com.
  2. "Deadly car bomb attack rocks Syria's Homs". www.aljazeera.com.
  3. "'IS Homs bomb attack' kills 16". BBC News. December 12, 2015.


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