BEIRUT—The ISIS group on Thursday claimed responsibility for the bombing of two restaurants in a predominantly Kurdish city in northeastern Syria the previous night, an attack that killed at least 16 people and wounded 35.
Syria’s state news agency SANA said the “terrorist explosions” hit the Shiyahi area, a Christian neighborhood, late Wednesday in the city of Qamishli. A poster hung up at a local church said 13 of the victims were Christians, and that their funerals would take place later Thursday.
The Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said the bombs went off in the city center, near a security point run by government troops.
