Overview
- The explosion occurred during prayers at the Imam Ali Bin Abi Talib mosque in Homs’ Wadi al Dahab neighborhood, killing at least eight and injuring more than twenty.
- Saraya Ansar al Sunna said it carried out the attack, the same group that claimed a June suicide bombing at a Damascus church that killed 25 people and wounded 60.
- Reporting describes Saraya Ansar al Sunna as formed by fighters who left Hayat Tahrir al Sham, led by Ahmed al Sharaa.
- The strike hit an area with a large Alawite population that has seen a series of recent targeted killings attributed in local accounts to the same group.
- Syria’s foreign minister condemned the bombing as a bid to destabilize the country and pledged that those responsible would be punished.