It
represents one of the deadliest attacks in months against Syrian
government troops not on an active front line. Bus attacks in
particular have been on the rise, including in the Damascus
countryside.
There was no immediate claim of responsibility for Thursday's
attack and no comment from Syrian authorities.
The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, a war monitor that
counts casualties and covers military developments in the
11-year-old conflict, said that 17 soldiers were killed in the
blast.
A decade of conflict in Syria has killed hundreds of thousands
of people and left the country fractured. Syrian government
troops have managed to recapture much of the territory they had
lost to opposition fighters.
Security incidents have been on the rise around Damascus and
other parts of Syria controlled by the government.
(Reporting by Kinda Makieh and Maya Gebeily; Editing by Alex
Richardson and William Maclean)
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