(Zaman Al Wasl)- One person was killed and two more people were wounded Tuesday by an improvised explosive device in eastern Raqqa province, a citizen journalist group said.
Raqqa Is Being Slaughtered Silently said Mohamed al-Aydan, local official in the Kurdish Democratic Union was killed and his son was injured in the IED attack on his store in the city center.
Activists said such attacks are being carried out by the Islamic State's sleeper cells in the former de-facto capital.
Also in northeastern Syria, a car bombing claimed by Daesh killed five people, including three children, in Al-Qahtaniya, a town in Hasakeh province, AFP reported Wednesday.
Hoker Arafat, a security official said the bomb was detonated remotely in front of the town post office, according to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights.
"Three children were killed in the bombing because it was very close to a primary school," he said.
A member of the local security forces was wounded in the attack, he added.
Daesh (ISIS) claimed the attack on its Telegram channel.
The militant group routinely claims attacks in northeast Syria, despite its territorial defeat earlier this year.
Such attacks have included arson against wheat fields and deadly car bombs.
IS maintains a presence in the country's vast Badia desert, as well as in areas controlled by the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces in the country's northeast and east.
The SDF, backed by the war planes of a US-led coalition, announced the end of IS' self-proclaimed "caliphate" in March in the village of Baghouz, in Syria's far east.
Syria's war has killed more than 560,000 people and displaced millions since it started in 2011 with a brutal crackdown on anti-regime protests.
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