lebanon. were they target iing a hezboll area in order to send a message that their intervention in the war should be stopped. and then who exactly is responsible? it could be isis. it could be other groups. there are many groups that have big problems with what they are doing inside of syria. so you re tell iing me a potential and, again, we don t know. we re seeing isis supporters claim responsibility. we can t authenticate that whatsoever. 41 people killed, just around 200 people wounded in these two suicide bomb attacks. josh, to your point, a possibility would be targeting hezbollah specifically in civilians being collateral damage. what this is based on is the pattern of attacks we have seen as hezbollah has gotten more
facing and this strategic piece of highway. what s important today is the measure of success the peshmerga appear to have had had. we were with them as they move ed to the west of the city of sinjar. that sits below the mountain, which they have held for a number of weeks, but moving around to the west, they were aiming to hit that main. route that runs between raqqa and mosul. there was a lot of power being used. but also hammering further to the west of sinjar what must have been isis positions. they kept using car bombs driven by suicide bombers to try and weaken the pesh mmerga. it seemed to have had better weaponry to use to stop those cars in their tracks and coalition air power. they seem to hit that road well,
the body of a third attack r who failed to detonate his suicide vest was found at the site of the deadly twin bombings in southern beirut. this is according to the lebanese army in a statement there. so the body found that didn t deploy. so potentially more violence they were hoping for. reports there were three suicide bombers, that one of the bombers wasn t able to detonate his devices. he was killed by one of the other suicide bombers and their blast. but very early stages in the reporting. they are trying to sort all this out, trying to see which group was responsible. isis does have a track record of opportunistically claiming attacks like this we need an investigation to find out who is really responsible. thank you so much. keep it here on cnn. we ll be right back. actually be exactly what i am.
this is a grouped of armed fighters supported by the kdp and another one, the puk. they are coming from different directions. . the forces are by different officials, but they are reliving this city of 400,000 when it was thriving. and that road, which we re talking about, highway 47 which goes east to west from raqqa through sinjar into mosul has been critically important for the isis fighters to resupply that base in the mosul region. it s a long stretch. i have been on that road several times. it is long, it is boring, it is wide open and the difference in terms of the tactics now is you have a significantly increased air power capability because we have airplanes flying and they include f-16s. they have longer loiter time on
in cokuwait and saudi arabia. what they want to do is plunge the entire region into a sunni/shia civil war to take advantage of the chaos. this may not be connected whatsoever, but when ithink of the timing we have been talking a bt the sinjar area of iraq and you see what the peshmerga. and u.s. coalition is a able to do in northern iraq here. would this at all be a result of that? it all plays to these broader sectarian tensions across the region where on the one hand you have shia groups like hezbollah. a shia majority government like the iraqi government on the other side, groups like al qaeda and isis. and as we move forward, this sectarian tension is only increasing across the middle east. it s just disturbing the trend lines we re now seeing. i have new information. let me. get this to everyone as we re covering this blast.