A small Sunni extremist group, Saraya Ansar al-Sunna, has claimed responsibility for a deadly attack on an Alawite mosque in Homs, Syria, killing eight and injuring 21, marking another in a series of attacks targeting the Alawite community

At least eight people were killed and 21 injured after an explosive device detonated inside a mosque used by Syria’s Alawite minority in the city of Homs, as authorities sealed off the area and launched an investigation

Education ministry’s general secretariat of religious affairs issues decision allowing prayer service at the current exhibition center of Yeni Cami, on the occasion of the Islamic holiday of Eid_al-Fitr, or Bayram