Syria's Intelligence Directorate foiled an attack by the Islamic State group on the Sayeda Zeinab shrine in a Damascus suburb, a site of mass pilgrimage for Shias, state news agency Sana reported on Saturday. It said members of the cell were arrested before they could detonate an explosion inside the shrine.... read full story
"The General Intelligence Directorate is utilizing all its resources to confront all attempts to target the Syrian people in all their diversity,"