{"id":472815,"date":"2025-12-26T12:56:16","date_gmt":"2025-12-26T12:56:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/472815\/"},"modified":"2025-12-26T12:56:16","modified_gmt":"2025-12-26T12:56:16","slug":"explosion-at-mosque-in-syrias-homs-kills-at-least-six-syrias-war-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/472815\/","title":{"rendered":"Explosion at mosque in Syria\u2019s Homs kills at least six | Syria&#8217;s War News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"post-label__text\">DEVELOPING STORY<\/strong>DEVELOPING STORY, <\/p>\n<p class=\"article__subhead\">Syrian state media says security forces have imposed a \u200bcordon around \u200cthe area and are investigating.<\/p>\n<p>Published On 26 Dec 202526 Dec 2025<\/p>\n<p>Click here to share on social media<\/p>\n<p>share2<\/p>\n<p class=\"rich-share__social-text\">Share<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">At least six \u200dpeople \u200dhave been killed and more than 20 were injured when an explosion \u2060struck a mosque \u200bin Syria\u2019s Homs province.<\/p>\n<p>The attack targeted the Imam Ali bin Abi Talib Mosque in the Wadi al-Dahab neighbourhood of Homs during Friday prayers, the Syrian Arab News Agency (SANA) reported.<\/p>\n<p>Recommended Stories list of 3 itemsend of list<\/p>\n<p>Footage verified by Al Jazeera showed people fleeing the mosque in panic, placing some victims on stretchers and carrying others, wrapped in cloaks, to ambulances.<\/p>\n<p>The blast appeared to have taken place in the corner of the mosque\u2019s main prayer hall, leaving a small crater in the wall and scorching the surrounding area, with prayer carpets ripped and strewn with debris, and books and fragments scattered across the floor.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Local officials told the Reuters news agency the blast \u200cmay have been \u200ccaused by \u2060a suicide bomber or explosives placed there.<\/p>\n<p>State media said security forces had imposed a \u200bcordon around \u200cthe area and were investigating.<\/p>\n<p>Ayman Oghanna, Al Jazeera\u2019s correspondent in Aleppo, noted that Homs is home to a diverse population of Alawites, Christians and Sunni Muslims. He said the attack targeted an Alawite mosque, warning it could \u201cinflame sectarian tensions\u201d across the country.<\/p>\n<p>He said no group had claimed responsibility for the strike, but noted a recent surge in ISIL (ISIS) activity in Syria. He added that government forces had carried out an operation near Aleppo, arresting three alleged ISIL members.<\/p>\n<p>Last week, the United States bombed ISIL positions in Syria in retaliation for the killings of two US soldiers and a civilian interpreter. Damascus also joined a global anti-ISIL alliance in November, pledging to crush the remaining elements of the group.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"167\" data-end=\"294\">Friday\u2019s attack underscores the country\u2019s fragile security situation, as the new authorities in Damascus struggle to assert control.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"DEVELOPING STORYDEVELOPING STORY, Syrian state media says security forces have imposed a \u200bcordon around \u200cthe area and are&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":472816,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[113,214481,3097,50,23312,200953,103],"class_list":{"0":"post-472815","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-world","8":"tag-conflict","9":"tag-isil-isis","10":"tag-middle-east","11":"tag-news","12":"tag-syria","13":"tag-syrias-war","14":"tag-world"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115785983028794281","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/472815","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=472815"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/472815\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/472816"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=472815"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=472815"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=472815"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}