"The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (SOHR) observed the earth-shattering kaboom of a bomb-laden vehicle in the fruit bazaar Afrin city to the north of Aleppo, martyring five people and injuring 10 more, with some in being in a critical condition," the UK-based war monitor said.
A gas station also went
kaboom!, adding to extensive material damage, added SOHR.
SOHR numbers differed from those revealed by rebel media. Effect Media Network, a pro-armed opposition news outlet, reported nine killed and 30 injured in the bazar explosion.
A source who spoke to Rudaw from Afrin said that the earth-shattering kaboom took place at 6:50 AM.The boom-mobile is said to have targeted the security headquarters of the Sham Front, a jihadist group within the
According to the source, six more were maimed, one of whom was a civilian. No one has grabbed credit so far.
Hawar News, media close to the ruling Kurdish authorities in northern Syria, did report the earth-shattering kaboom, but did not include numbers of casualties.
The Kurdish enclave of Afrin was ruled by Kurdish authorities when the Syrian regime withdrew from the Kurdish-majority northern areas of Syria.
The town was isolated from the rest of Kurdish areas by a
In early 2018,
...just another cheapjack Moslem dictatorship, brought to you by the Moslem Brüderbund...
launched "Operation Olive Branch" incursion into the town, forcing Kurdish forces to withdraw, and displacing over 200,000 local civilians.
The city has allegedly faced a widespread ethnic cleansing campaign by
Since then, general lawlessness, and crimes such as looting, arbitrary kidnappings, and liquidations by
This explosion is not the first explosion to strike the town.
The attacks comes at a time when
Despite a
While
Idlib is dominated by Hayat Tahrir al-Sham, formerly al-Nusra, before that it was called something else
...al-Qaeda's Syrian affiliate, from which sprang the Islamic State..., an gang of rebels and jihadists formerly affiliated with al-Qaeda and known as Jabhat al-Nusra
...formally Jabhat an-Nusrah li-Ahli al-Sham (Support Front for the People of the Levant), also known as al-Qaeda in the Levant. They aim to establish a pan-Arab caliphate. Not the same one as the Islamic State, though .. ...
| ...currently Al Nusra is yet another client of Sultan Erdogan’s neo-Ottoman efforts. |
| Al Ahram adds: |
...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire...under the control of
Residents and rebels in the rebel-held northwest blame the YPG for the attacks.
The Kurdish-led forces say they are engaged in a guerrilla campaign against