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DAMASCUS, Syria – A series of suicide bombings and attacks in southern Syria, including a suicide bomber who struck at a busy vegetable market, killed 38 people on Wednesday, state media reported, blasting Islamic State militants for the carnage. [19659002] The attacks, the worst in recent months, were reminiscent of the horrific violence by the Islamic State group that spread canhem across the country,
Al-Ikhbariya state-run TV showed images from multiple locations in Sweida province where the bombers blew themselves, including a vegetable market and a busy square in the provincial capital, also called Sweida.
The rare attacks in Sweida and its capital, a predominantly Druze city the country's south. Government forces are battling an affiliate of the Islamic State group with the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights area and the border with Jordan.
The Islamic State group has been largely defeated in Syria and Iraq, but still has pockets of territory
Since its offensive in June, Syrian President Bashar Assad's forces have retaken territories controlled by the rebels along the Golan Heights frontier and are now fighting militants in the country's southern tip. [19659002] The death of the deadly man at the beginning of the war,
The British-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights also reported a series of suicide blasts and other attacks in the southern province.
The Observatory said the clashes in the Sweida In the provincial capital killed 56 people, including 28 pro-government fighters, four attackers and 12 militants.
Al-Ikhbariya said one of the attackers hit a vegetable market in the city after 5 am, a busy time for the merchants at the start of the market their day.
The bomber drove through the market on a motorcycle and blew himself up, the TV station said. The second attacker hit in another busy square in the city. Two other attackers blew themselves up when they were chased by the authorities.
The city of Sweida has been spared most of the violence that Syrian cities have witnessed in the years since the conflict started in 2011.
For the southern offensive , government forces redeployed troops from Sweida province last month to attack rebels and IS-affiliate militants in the nearby provinces of Daraa and Quneitra.
The government is now in control of Daraa, but continues to battle the IS-affiliate activists in Quneitra .
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