A suicide attacker detonated a car bomb yesterday near a Syrian security compound in a remote, predominantly Kurdish town, killing at least four people, state media said, in a new sign that the country’s largest ethnic minority might be drawn into a widening civil war.

Gunmen snatched 47 Iranian pilgrims just outside Damascus in a brazen attack that revealed the growing instability at the centre of President Bashar Assad’s power.

A suicide bomber blew up his car in a central Syrian town today, killing three civilians and one security officer, Syria’s state news agency said.

An Islamist group has claimed responsibility for two suicide bombings that killed at least 55 people and wounded hundreds more in Syria on Thursday.

A video posted online in the name of a militant group is admitting responsibility for twin suicide bombings in the Syrian capital in which 55 people died.

Two suicide car bombs ripped through the Syrian capital today, killing 55 people and tearing the facade off a military intelligence building in the deadliest explosions since the country’s uprising began 14 months ago.