Syria: Suicide Attacks by Islamic State Target Cadets and a Militia in the North

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Two car bombings half an hour apart killed 26 people on Monday in a predominantly Kurdish city in northeastern Syria, the country’s state-owned news media and activists reported. The Islamic State claimed responsibility, saying in a statement that one suicide bomber had targeted a graduation ceremony for Kurdish cadets and that another had hit a base for a pro-government militia. Two neighborhoods in the city of Hasaka were hit, with the worst bombing killing at least 21 people and trapping victims in a collapsed building, the state news agency SANA reported. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, an activist network based in Britain, said 13 civilians, six Kurdish fighters and seven militia members supporting President Bashar al-Assad had been killed. Hasaka has been the scene of repeated attacks by Islamic State militants. Syrian Kurdish fighters are largely in control of the city, which has pockets of government forces. But the Islamic State has been battling the Kurdish forces and government troops in the province for months.