Syria intelligence says thwarted ISIS attempt to bomb Shia shrine

Syrian authorities foiled an attempt by Islamic State (ISIS) to blow up a revered Shia shrine in a Damascus suburb, a source within Syria’s intelligence agency told state news agency SANA on Saturday.

Intelligence and security forces “succeeded in thwarting an attempt by ISIS to carry out a bombing inside the Sayyeda Zainab shrine”, the source said. The interior ministry posted pictures of four men it identified as members of an ISIS cell, arrested in the countryside outside the capital.