2025 Homs mosque bombing
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On 26 December 2025, a bombing occurred in the Alawite-majority Imam Ali ibn Abi Talib mosque in Homs, Syria during Friday prayers. The explosion killed eight people and left eighteen more injured. The Islamist militant group, Saraya Ansar al-Sunnah claimed responsibility for the attack via a statement on Telegram.
Background
Following the fall of the Assad regime, the city of Homs experienced a deterioration in security and a resurgence of sectarian tensions. According to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (SOHR), multiple episodes of communal violence were recorded in Homs and surrounding areas during the post-Assad period, including attacks on and retaliatory killings of Alawite civilians amid broader unrest between different sectarian groups, contributing to a volatile security situation in the city.
Bombing
The bombing occurred in Ali ibn Abi Talib Mosque in the Wadi al-Dahab neighborhood, an Alawite-majority neighborhood, during Friday prayer. An eyewitness told Al Jazeera Arabic that the explosion occurred between the times of Adhan and Iqama, and that the explosion felt like it came from the western side of the mosque.
Eight fatalities and 18 injuries were reported as a result of the attack.
Perpetrators
Saraya Ansar al-Sunnah, an extremist Islamist terrorist group, claimed responsibility for the attack in a statement on Telegram, saying that it detonated several explosive devices inside the mosque in coordination with members of another organization, warning that its operations "will continue to escalate". The group was formed shortly after the fall of the Assad regime in December 2024 and had previously carried out a suicide bombing inside a church in Damascus in June 2025.
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