9 July 2013
✸Car bomb in Bir al-Abed
AttackerArmed Islamist groups (al-Qaeda, Nusra, ISIS, Assir…)➜TargetHezbollah
On 9 July 2013 a car bomb exploded in a car park near the Islamic Cooperative in Bir al-Abed in the southern suburbs, wounding more than 50; the first bombing to target the suburbs after Hezbollah announced its fighting in Qusayr.