IS claims responsibility for bombings near Damascus shrine

Amman: IS militants claimed responsibility for car and suicide bomb blasts that killed at least eight people and injured scores in a suburb of the Syrian capital Damascus on Saturday, the IS-affiliated Amaq news agency said.
The Sayeda Zeinab suburb containst he shrine and is a base for militant groups from Lebanon and Iraq who are on the side of President Bashar Al Assad in the country's five-year-old civil war.
Amaq news agency said that in Saturday's attack, militants detonated an explosives-laden car in Sayeda Zeinab while two suicide bombers blew themselves up nearby.
Syrian state media showed footage of wide-scale damage in a busy marketplace.