Car blast kills eight in Syria's Afrin
At least eight people were killed on Thursday when a car bomb exploded in a busy market in the northwest Syrian city of Afrin, under control of Turkey-backed rebel groups, witnesses and a rescuer said, according to Reuters report.
They said the blast also wounded at least 30. The Turkish military helped by its Syrian rebel allies seized Afrin, a mainly Kurdish city, from the Kurdish YPG militia in March 2018 in a major offensive.
Turkish forces have since carved out a buffer zone inside northern Syria that extends along most of the countries’ border.