### [2015-12-12](/feed/2015/12/12/index.md)

##### Civil war
# Sixteen people are killed and many more injured by a car bomb and a second, delayed explosion near a hospital in Syria's mainly Alawite, government-controlled neighborhood of al-Zahra, east of Homs' old city, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights reports. The attack comes just five days after the government and rebels agreed on a local ceasefire in the western al-Waer suburb. 




### Sources:

1. [EuroNews](http://www.euronews.com/2015/12/12/syria-explosions-in-homs-leave-at-least-16-dead/)
2. [Reuters](https://www.reuters.com/article/us-mideast-crisis-syria-blast-idUSKBN0TV0AZ20151212#8Wrebpd8a9PrsS52.97)

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