IS car bomb in Syrian capital kills 10

Aside from the casualties, the Damascus terrorist attack also caused damage to buildings, which included the General Establishment for Mills. The bomb was detonated in the adjacent vegetable market.

The blast occurred in Masaken Barzeh, a middle-class northern district in the Syrian capital, on Tuesday, Syrian television reported.

Last month, a multiple bomb attack by the jihadist group Islamic State (IS) near the Sayyida Zeinab shrine south of Damascus left at least 71 people dead.

The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, which tracks violence in Syria’s civil war, said eight police officers were killed in the blast and at least 20 wounded after a vehicle was detonated in a parking lot in the police officers’ club.

Today’s Human Rights Watch report Russia/Syria: Daily Cluster Munition Attacks documents further use of cluster munitions in the Syria conflict, following earlier reports from Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch on the use of cluster munitions in Syria.

Syrian state news agency SANA said three people were killed and 14 wounded in the attack.

Cluster bombs open in flight and scatter dozens of explosive munitions over wide areas.

Opposition activists have said that Russian Federation has been using cluster bombs since the start of its aerial campaign in Syria on September 30. It called on Syria and Russian Federation should join the Convention on Cluster Munitions. More than 260,000 people have been killed and millions displaced since March 2011.