The blast struck an entrance to the city, killing civilians including children, the Britannia-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights war monitoring group reported.
The Observatory and the medical sources said many other people had been injured in the earth-shattering kaboom, some very badly.
Afrin is located north of Aleppo near the border with
...Qatar's colony in Asia Minor.... It was held by the Kurdish YPG militia until last year when rebels seized it and the surrounding countryside in a Turkey-backed offensive.