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3 Deadly Attacks in Northern Syria Add to Rising Tension Mohammad Al-Kassim 02/01/2021
At least 12 dead, 7 of them civilians, in attacks blamed on Kurds linked to the outlawed Kurdistan Workers Party, or PKK
In a span of 24 hours, three blasts, including an attack on a Syrian opposition checkpoint, rocked northern Syria in areas under the control of the Turkish military, Syrian opposition and Kurdish militias.
A car bomb on Sunday killed at least 12 people, including seven civilians, and scores more were wounded in two separate incidents in Turkish-held northern Syria.
The attacks took place in highly congested and densely populated areas, which are near government buildings and an NGO cultural center.
DAMASCUS, Jan. 31 (Xinhua) Three explosions rocked rebel-held areas in northern Syria over the past 24 hours as protests erupted against the Kurdish militia in northeastern Syria on Sunday. Both civilians and militants were killed in the explosions that hit the areas controlled by the Turkey-backed rebels in the northern and eastern countryside of Aleppo Province, according to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights. In Afrin city, eight people including four children were killed when a car bomb exploded in the Sinaa neighborhood on Saturday. On Sunday, six people, including two women and a child, died in a second car bombing near the cultural center in the city of Azaz in northern Aleppo.
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Members of the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) are pictured during preparations to join the front against Turkish forces, near the northern Syrian town of Hasakah, Oct. 10, 2019. (Photo: AFP)
ERBIL (Kurdistan 24) – One person was killed on Saturday after members of the pro-Assad regime militia known as the National Defense Forces (NDF) fired on the Internal Security Forces in Hasakah city.
The local pro-Kurdish Hawar News Agency (ANHA) reported that the NDF “fired at a checkpoint held by the Internal Security Forces (also known as Asayish) in the Marsho Quarter in the city of Hasakah,” with the Kurdish-led forces exercising restraint.
Weeks of heavy rains have created immense hardship for Idlib residents, who are already contending with the war between rebel groups and the government.