The 2015 Homs car bombing was a twin-explosion car bombing that killed 16 and injured many more. It occurred near a hospital in al-Zahra, an Alawite populated, government-controlled Neighborhood east of Homs' old city. The attack came five days after the government and rebels agreed on a local ceasefire in the western al-Waer suburb.[1][2][3]

Homs car bombing
Part of Syrian Civil War
LocationHoms, Syria
Date12 December 2015
Attack type
Car bombs
Deaths16
Perpetrators Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant

References

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  1. ^ "Blasts near hospital in Syria's Homs city kill 16". Reuters. December 12, 2015 – via www.reuters.com.
  2. ^ "Deadly car bomb attack rocks Syria's Homs". www.aljazeera.com.
  3. ^ "'IS Homs bomb attack' kills 16". BBC News. December 12, 2015.