In early 2016 there was a series of bombings in the mainly Shi'ite town of Sayyidah Zaynab and attributed to Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant.

On 31 January 2016, two suicide bombs and a car bomb exploded in the mainly Shi'ite town of Sayyidah Zaynab near Syria's holiest[5] Shi'ite shrine, the Sayyidah Zaynab Mosque.

[1] This is second time the Sayyidah Zaynab Mosque shrine has been targeted; in February 2015 two suicide attacks killed four people and wounded thirteen.

[1] The death toll rose to 71, including 42 Syrian army and Shi'ite fighters as well as 29 civilians.

Syrian media said the attack occurred when pupils were leaving school in the area.