The January 2017 Azaz bombing occurred on 7 January 2017 when a
car bomb in front of a courthouse and near a market in the rebel-held city of
Azaz
Azaz ( ar, أَعْزَاز, ʾAʿzāz) is a city in northwest Syria, roughly north-northwest of Aleppo. According to the Syria Central Bureau of Statistics (CBS), Azaz had a population of 31,623 in the 2004 census. ,
Syria detonated, killing at least 60 people, mostly civilians, and wounding around 50 others. The
Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant
An Islamic state is a state that has a form of government based on Islamic law (sharia). As a term, it has been used to describe various historical polities and theories of governance in the Islamic world. As a translation of the Arabic term ...
was suspected and blamed for the attack.
See also
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List of terrorist incidents in January 2017
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5 September 2016 Syria bombings
On 5 September 2016, suicide bombers simultaneously exploded in the Syrian cities of Tartus, Homs, Damascus, and Hasakah. A car bomb detonated on a coastal highway in Tartus, killing more than five people, followed by a suicide bomber explod ...
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