In March 2017, three attacks occurred in the city of

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Syria Syria ( ar, سُورِيَا or سُورِيَة, translit=Sūriyā), officially the Syrian Arab Republic ( ar, الجمهورية العربية السورية, al-Jumhūrīyah al-ʻArabīyah as-Sūrīyah), is a Western Asian country loc ...

. The first happened on the March 11, when a double bomb

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in the Old City of Damascus on Saturday killed dozens of people - mostly Iraqi Shia pilgrims - and wounded more than 100. The second and the third happened on the March 15, when two suicide bombers detonated their explosive vests in the capital's main judicial building and in a restaurant.

Perpetrators

Tahrir al-Sham claimed responsibility for the first attack and the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant claimed the second and the third.

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