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IS claims responsibility for Beirut blasts

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Militants from so-called Islamic State (IS) say they were behind two suicide bomb attacks in the Lebanese capital Beirut, which killed at least 41, the BBC reports.

The bombed suburb of Burj al-Barajneh is a stronghold of Hezbollah forces fighting IS in Syria.

The Lebanese government has declared Friday a day of national mourning.

PM Tammam Salam called for unity in the face of attempts to create strife. The bombing is the worst in Beirut since the end of Lebanon’s civil war in 1990.

Emil Lazarian: “I should like to see any power of the world destroy this race, this small tribe of unimportant people, whose wars have all been fought and lost, whose structures have crumbled, literature is unread, music is unheard, and prayers are no more answered. Go ahead, destroy Armenia . See if you can do it. Send them into the desert without bread or water. Burn their homes and churches. Then see if they will not laugh, sing and pray again. For when two of them meet anywhere in the world, see if they will not create a New Armenia.” - WS
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