BEIRUT — Two bomb blasts at a Syrian army base in central Damascus on Sunday injured four people, according to Syrian state media.
The official Akhbariya channel showed footage of rubble spattered with blood at the site, along with a battered black sport utility vehicle, and said “terrorists” had carried out the attack.
The explosion took place in Abu Rummaneh, a well-guarded upscale area in central Damascus where the Ministry of Defense and other government buildings are located.
A spokesman for the Free Syrian Army said the group had carried out Sunday’s bombing as revenge for an attack by the military in the Damascus suburb of Darayya on Aug. 25 that killed at least 320 people. “We wanted to attack the regime in its own home,” said the spokesman, who goes by the nom de guerre Zain al Deen al Demashki.
