Eight people were killed Thursday when a car bomb exploded in the Syrian town of Saasa, the latest mass casualty incident in an ongoing Syrian civil war. That the incident happened in Saasa, located in the Syrian Golan just 14 miles from the Israel-Syria border, increases concerns that the now two-year war will spill over into neighboring countries. The UK-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights has suggested that the Al Qaeda-linked al-Nusra Front was responsible for the blasts. Spillover from Syria into both Jordan and Lebanon has deepened tensions in the region, and Jordanian officials have reported that as many as 300,000 Syrian refugees have entered Jordan, with 6,000 entering since Thursday. Earlier this month Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu announced plans to build a security fence between Israel and Syria.

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