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A suicide bomber targeted a group of Syrian police officers in the city of Aleppo killing one member of the security forces and wounding two others, the official news agency SANA reported.<\/p>\n
Syria\u2019s Interior Ministry spokesman Noureddine al-Baba told Al-Ikhbariah TV that the original target of the attack on Wednesday was likely a church gathering in the city\u2019s Bab al-Faraj neighbourhood.<\/p>\n
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\u201cWe were able to thwart this attack, although unfortunately the martyrdom of one of our colleagues is a great loss,\u201d al-Baba said.<\/p>\n
The Aleppo governorate administration said the assailant blew himself up after officers approached to detain him.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe relevant authorities are continuing to investigate the circumstances of the incident and have imposed a security perimeter around the site,\u201d it said.<\/p>\n
Azzam al-Gharib, the governor of the province, said security forces observed the \u201cterrorist agent\u201d and tried to arrest him while securing New Year\u2019s Eve celebrations in the city.<\/p>\n
\u201cOne of the security officers managed to physically restrain him. At that point the terrorist detonated his explosive belt,\u201d al-Gharib said in a statement.<\/p>\n
The wounded officers are receiving treatment at a hospital, he added, without providing details about their condition.<\/p>\n
No group has claimed responsibility for the suicide blast in Aleppo so far.<\/p>\n
The incident, hours before the New Year arrived, follows the bombing of an Alawite mosque in Homs<\/a> that killed at least eight people on Friday.<\/p>\n Syria, led President Ahmad al-Sharaa, a former rebel commander, has been facing mounting security challenges after more than 13 years of civil war that ended late in 2024 with the fall of former President Bashar al-Assad\u2019s government.<\/p>\n On Sunday, deadly clashes<\/a> erupted between Alawite demonstrators and counter-protesters that erupted across several coastal regions. Al-Assad \u2013 who fled to Russia after the armed opposition took over the capital Damascus in a lightening offensive \u2013 is a member of Syria\u2019s Alawite minority community.<\/p>\n Separately, earlier this month, US forces carried out strikes across central Syria<\/a> against what they said were ISIL (ISIS) remnants after a gunman from the group killed two American soldiers and an accompanying civilian translator.<\/p>\n Sporadic clashes have also been breaking out between government forces and the Kurdish-dominated Syria Democratic Forces who control the much of the northeast of the country.<\/p>\n