Syria: Blast targeting military bus kills 18 soldiers

BEIRUT (AP) — A bomb has exploded near a Syrian military bus in a suburb of Damascas, killing 18 soldiers. Syrian state media, citing a military source, reported that the blast on Thursday wounded 27 others. Similar attacks in past years have killed and wounded dozens of soldiers in government-held parts of the war-torn country. Last March, militants attacked a military bus near Palmyra in central Syria, killing 13 troops and wounding 18 others.