Video RAW: Bombs in Syria's Homs kill 32, wound 90
Video on the ground in Syria has shown the horrific aftermath of two suicide explosions that killed 32 people and injured 90.
The blasts, one from a car bomb and another from a suicide attack, struck the Zahra district in the middle of Homs on Monday, said the Britain-based Observatory, which monitors the conflict through a network of contacts on the ground.
Twitter user Haidar Sumeri has revealed apocalyptic scenes of devastation.
Groups of men can be seen moving bodies from an emergency vehicle down the street.
Two women and a young girl limp down the street, screaming in pain.
Sirens can be heard as another bomb blows up a nearby building and people run for cover as firefighters try to tame the bomb blaze.
Video Apocalyptic scenes after Syrian bomb blast
More vision from Reuters shows a man trying to stop the fire from spreading by hosing down a burnt-out car.
Hundreds of people are seen stranded on the street with nowhere to go as their charred apartment blocks are left with nothing inside.
Syria's state news agency SANA reported two car bomb blasts, but gave a lower initial toll of six dead and 37 wounded.
It was the second major attack in the city since a ceasefire deal took effect earlier this month, paving the way for the government to take over the last rebel-controlled area of Homs.
Over 250,000 people have been killed since Syria’s anti-government protests in 2011 which has but coiled into lethal conflict.
Twin blasts on December 12, also in Zahra, killed at least 16 people. Islamic State claimed responsibility for that attack, saying it had detonated a suicide car bomb.
The devastating blast comes just as Iraq celebrates their first major victory city of Ramadi’s liberation from Islamic State militants.
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Video Iraqi army declares victory over Islamic State in Ramadi
Iraq's army declared victory over Islamic State fighters in a provincial capital west of Baghdad on Sunday, the first major triumph for the US-trained force since it collapsed in the face of an assault by the militants 18 months ago.
The capture of Ramadi, capital of mainly Sunni-Muslim Anbar province in the Euphrates River valley west of the capital, deprives Islamic State militants of their biggest prize of 2015.
The fighters seized it in May after government troops fled in a defeat which prompted Washington to take a hard look at strategy in its ongoing air war against the militants.
Ramadi was the first major city recaptured by the army itself, without relying on the militias, who were kept off the battlefield to avoid sectarian tension with the mainly Sunni population.
Islamic State, also known by the acronyms ISIS, ISIL or Daesh, swept through a third of Iraq in June 2014 and declared a "caliphate" to rule over all Muslims from territory in both Iraq and Syria, carrying out mass killings and imposing a draconian form of Islam.
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