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AL-QAIDA’S latest incarnation in Syria claimed responsibility yesterday for Saturday’s sectarian terrorist massacre of pilgrims in Damascus.

The Iraqi Foreign Ministry said all 40 dead and 120 injured were pilgrims from Iraq.

Hayat Tahrir as-Sham (the Levant Liberation Organisation) said two of its suicide bombers carried out the attack as a message to Syria’s ally Iran.

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