Damascus: A militant group named ‘Al-Nusra Front’ claimed responsibility for a suicide bombing in eastern Syria last week vowed to continue launching attacks, media reported on Monday.
A suicide bomber detonated a car bomb in eastern Syria on Saturday killing at least nine people and wounding many others.
Al-Nusra Front said that it was behind the attack on Saturday which targeted military installations in Deir Ezzor. The authenticity of the statement could not immediately be verified.
“There was a limit to the ferocity of the dogs of the regime in Deir Ezzor at which they had to be punished, so the soldiers of al-Nusra front undertook this mission,” read the statement on an Islamist web forum.
“The blessed operations will continue until the land of Syria is purified from the filth of the Nusayris (Alawites) and the Sunnis are relieved from their oppression.”
The uprising against four decades of Assad family rule has been led by Syria’s Sunni Muslim majority, many of whom are resentful of a political and military elite dominated by the minority Alawite sect, an offshoot of Shiite Islam to which Assad belongs.
The Syrian government points to bombings as proof it is confronting foreign-backed militants, not a home-grown uprising.
Al-Nusra Front has previously claimed responsibility for bombings in Damascus and Aleppo.
No civilians were killed in the bombing in Deir Ezzor, al-Nusra said in the statement, adding it had previously cancelled operations because “innocent people” were at its target site.
The group, whose full name means “the support front for the people of Syria,” has emerged during the revolt, which began as a peaceful protest movement but has become increasingly militarized as rebels fight back against a government crackdown.
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