Syrian authorities have foiled an attempt by ISIL (ISIS) fighters to explode a revered Shia shrine in a Damascus suburban area, state news agency SANA reported.Intelligence and security forces was successful in thwarting an effort by ISIL to perform a bombing inside the Sayyida Zeinab shrine, a source within Syrias intelligence firm told SANA on Saturday, adding that numerous individuals have actually been apprehended.
The General Intelligence Directorate is making use of all its resources to confront all efforts to target the Syrian individuals in all their diversity, the intelligence authorities told SANA.
The interior ministry published pictures of four men it said were members of an ISIL cell who had been detained in the countryside outside the capital.
It likewise published pictures of equipment supposedly seized from the suspects, including smartphones, 2 rifles, three explosive gadgets and numerous hand grenades.