Bus explosion near Damascus kills at least two, injures 13

At least two people were killed and 13 wounded after a bomb planted on a minibus exploded on Thursday in a Syrian town home to Druze and Christian communities near capital Damascus, state media reported, citing the health ministry. At the blast site in the town of Jaramana, a suburb of Damascus, a minibus had its roof blown out, with the chassis wrecked from the inside and debris strewn across the road, AFP images showed. "According to preliminary information... the explosion in the town of Jaramana was caused by a bomb placed" inside a minibus, state TV reported, citing an official source. No group immediately claimed responsibility for the blast. Since the toppling of longtime ruler Bashar al-Assad in December 2024, Syria's new Islamist authorities have sought to exercise full control and restore security. But the Syrian capital and its suburbs have been the site of multiple attacks and incidents targeting civilians and security forces since they took over. An AFP photographer saw several ambulances heading to the scene, where a main thoroughfare had been closed to traffic. The health ministry earlier said that "human remains were being identified and processed by forensic medica...