Claims extracted
14
sentences that state something as happening or true
Uncertain
0%
0 of 14 hedged
("reportedly", "may", "according to")
Leaning
not political
takes no side on a contested political question
Publisher signals
60/100
Al Jazeera's corrections and
hedging, across everything collected from it. Not a measure of accuracy.
Outlets on this story
4
Politics
Same framing elsewhere
1
articles that frame the event the way this one does
Deadly car bomb blast kills two near Syria's capital
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blast → kill → capital
A blast from a suspected explosive device planted inside a car in a suburb of the Syrian capital, Damascus, has killed at least two people, including a child, and wounded one.
The explosion in Jaramana, on the southeastern edge of Damascus, on Saturday killed a man and his daughter, while a third person, said to be the wife of the man, was seriously injured.
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person → suspect → man
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Syria’s Internal Security Forces said they sealed off the area and opened an investigation into the circumstances surrounding the blast.
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they → consider → blast
Jaramana is home to a large community of the Druze religious minority and has seen tensions between some Druze members and the Sunni majority backing President Ahmed al-Sharaa’s government.
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Jaramana → see → government
Witnesses described the vehicle as a Kia Rio parked between two apartment buildings in Jaramana, which is largely considered a quiet residential area, said Al Jazeera’s Heidi Pett, reporting from the blast scene.
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Pett → describe → scene
Pett said the security situation in the capital remains complex, despite improvements since the regime of former President Bashar al-Assad fell two years ago.
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regime → say → Assad
“In the last couple of months, there were two very high-profile incidents,” she said, including a double-tap attack in July during French President Emmanuel Macron’s visit, which Syrian authorities attributed to a cell affiliated with ISIL (ISIS).
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authorities → be → ISIL
“There was also a deadly attack on what’s known as the Lawyer’s Cafe, near the Palace of Justice, which has been the scene of these high-profile trials of former members of the Assad regime,” Pett said.
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Pett → be → regime
She added that most of the bombings and security incidents have not necessarily targeted civilians but members and locations of security forces, which authorities have also blamed on ISIL.
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authorities → add → ISIL
Last year, Damascus joined the US-led international coalition against ISIL.
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Damascus → join → ISIL
The coalition was formed in 2014 and has carried out operations against the group in Syria and Iraq.
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coalition → form → Syria
On September 27, the security forces said they had arrested four members of an ISIL cell involved in planning and carrying out several attacks in different parts of the country.
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they → say → country
Last month, Syria’s security forces said they foiled a plot to target a police patrol in the Damascus countryside, saying an ISIL cell was preparing to carry out the attack, Syrian state television reported.
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television → say → attack
They said the group was responsible for explosions and assassinations in Raqqa, Aleppo, Idlib and Homs.
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group → say → Raqqa
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