Islamist fighters from an al Qaeda splinter group bombed a large Shi'ite Muslim shrine in the eastern Syrian city of Raqqa on Wednesday, activists said. The mosque of Ammar bin Yassir and Oweis al-Qarni was once a destination for Shi'ite Muslim pilgrims from Iran, Leba**n and Iraq before it was taken over a year ago by Sunni rebels battling to overthrow President Bashar al-Assad. A**ther picture showed concrete and twisted metal strewn on the street outside the mosque - built under Assad's rule with support from Shi'ite Iran - while a**ther showed an interior wall that had collapsed inward. Many fighters from ISIL and other radical Sunni Islamist groups in Syria deem Shi'ites as infidels and consider their shrines idolatrous, and therefore legitimate targets.
03-26-2014, 07:57 PM
Islamists bomb Shi'ite shrine in eastern Syria: activists
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