DAMASCUS: Syrian authorities have arrested a Daesh military commander accused of overseeing and planning a December 2025 bombing at a mosque in Homs that killed eight people and wounded 18 others. Syria’s Interior Ministry said intelligence and security forces detained Khaled Raed Birouni, also known as Abu Hassan Doshka, during an operation in Hajira in the Damascus countryside. It accused him of implementing “several terrorist activities in the city, including the preparation and use of explos
