Deadly car bombing hits Turkey convoy in north Syria: monitor
No immediate claim of responsibility
Smoke rises from the Syrian town of Ras al-Ain, in a picture taken from the Turkish side of the border in Ceylanpinar on October 11, 2019, on the third day of Turkey's military operation against Kurdish forces. PHOTO: AFP
BEIRUT:
A deadly car bomb targeted a Turkish convoy in an area of northern Syria controlled by Turkey-backed fighters on Wednesday, a Britain-based war monitor said.
The blast hit a convoy of Turkish troops headed towards a military base west of the town of Jarabulus in the northern province of Aleppo, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said.
The monitoring group did not give a precise death toll, and there was no immediate claim of responsibility for the bombing.
Ankara-led forces on October 9 launched a cross-border incursion against Kurdish fighters several hundreds of kilometres to the east of Jarabulus, taking control of a 120-kilometre (70-mile) long strip of land along Turkey's southern frontier.
A US-backed Kurdish-led military campaign expelled the militant Islamic State group from their last patch of territory in Syria in March, but the militants have continued to claim deadly attacks ever since.
Syria's civil war has killed more than 370,000 people since it started in 2011 with the brutal repression of anti-government protests.
A deadly car bomb targeted a Turkish convoy in an area of northern Syria controlled by Turkey-backed fighters on Wednesday, a Britain-based war monitor said.
The blast hit a convoy of Turkish troops headed towards a military base west of the town of Jarabulus in the northern province of Aleppo, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said.
The monitoring group did not give a precise death toll, and there was no immediate claim of responsibility for the bombing.
Ankara-led forces on October 9 launched a cross-border incursion against Kurdish fighters several hundreds of kilometres to the east of Jarabulus, taking control of a 120-kilometre (70-mile) long strip of land along Turkey's southern frontier.
A US-backed Kurdish-led military campaign expelled the militant Islamic State group from their last patch of territory in Syria in March, but the militants have continued to claim deadly attacks ever since.
Syria's civil war has killed more than 370,000 people since it started in 2011 with the brutal repression of anti-government protests.