ISIS Claims Responsibility for Twin Beirut Bombings

ISIS is claiming responsibility for a deadly suicide bombing that killed at least 43 people Thursday in a Hezbollah stronghold in southern Beirut.

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Twin suicide bombing struck a Shiite suburb in southern Beirut on Thursday evening, killing at least 37 people and wounding scores more in one of the deadliest attacks in years, a Lebanese official said.
 
The explosions hit minutes apart in an area called Burj al-Barajneh during rush hour.

Southern Beirut is a stronghold of Lebanon's militant Hezbollah group that it fighting in Syria along with government forces there. The area has been hit in the past. Sunni militant groups have threatened to carry out more such attacks.

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