{"id":239127,"date":"2026-08-06T22:02:08","date_gmt":"2026-08-06T22:02:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/239127\/"},"modified":"2026-08-06T22:02:08","modified_gmt":"2026-08-06T22:02:08","slug":"deadly-bomb-attack-in-druze-area-near-damascus-kills-at-least-two-wounds-14","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/239127\/","title":{"rendered":"Deadly bomb attack in Druze area near Damascus kills at least two, wounds 14"},"content":{"rendered":"

A bomb planted in a minibus killed two people and wounded 14 others on the outskirts of Syria’s capital Damascus<\/a> on Thursday night, officials said.<\/p>\n

The blast occurred in the predominantly Druze area of Jaramana, outside Damascus. A security source told the state-run Ekhbariya TV that the blast was caused by an explosive device planted on the vehicle, citing preliminary information.<\/p>\n

Footage from the scene showed the blown-up husk of a white minibus being dragged away from the site of the blast.<\/p>\n

Jaramana resident Samer Abbas was meters away in his clothing store when the explosion went off. A piece of shrapnel hit the storefront.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt was a strong unnatural sound,\u201d he told Reuters in an interview.<\/p>\n

His son, who had been sitting outside, was the first thing that came to Abbas’ mind. Fearing the worst, Abbas said he could not rest until he confirmed his son was safe.<\/p>\n

\u201cMy blood dried up until I checked up on him, I saw him … until I heard his voice,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

Over at the Mujtahid Hospital<\/a> in Damascus, Bassel Imad said the bombing was “sadistic.” His cousin Safouh was driving the vehicle that exploded and lay injured.<\/p>\n

The targeted street in Jaramana is somewhat narrow and includes shops and street vendors, Imad said, as people clamored around him.<\/p>\n

“What happened was very wicked,” he added.<\/p>\n

Factions within Syria’s Druze<\/a> community have clashed with the country’s new Islamist leadership. A UN investigation in March found more than 1,700 people, most of them civilian members of the Druze religious sect and some members of the Bedouin community, were killed in the southern Sweida province in July 2025.<\/p>\n

It said Syrian government forces, tribal fighters and Druze armed groups may \u200bhave committed war crimes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A bomb planted in a minibus killed two people and wounded 14 others on the outskirts of Syria’s…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":239128,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[30],"tags":[19418,670,673,95,12968],"class_list":["post-239127","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-syria","tag-abu-mohammed-al-julani","tag-damascus","tag-sweida","tag-syria","tag-syria-druze"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@iran\/117050824649552370","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239127","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=239127"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239127\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/239128"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=239127"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=239127"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=239127"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}