Car bomb in north Syria kills 14, most civilians: monitor
A car bomb killed 14 people, mostly civilians, in the town of Al-Bab in northern Syria.
BEIRUT (AFP) - A car bomb on Tuesday killed 14 people, mostly civilians, in the Turkish-controlled town of Al-Bab in northern Syria, a war monitor said.
The explosion near a bus station in the town also wounded at least 40 people, some of them seriously, the Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights reported.
Turkey and its Syrian proxies control several pockets of territory on Syria s side of the border following three military incursions since 2016.
There was no immediate claim of responsibility for the car bombing, but there has been a string of attacks in Al-Bab since its capture by Turkish troops from the Islamic State group in 2017.
The town, 40 kilometres (25 miles) northeast of Syria s second city Aleppo, was one of the western-most strongholds of the jihadists self-styled territorial "caliphate".
US-backed Kurdish forces seized the last scrap of the statelet from the jihadists in eastern Syria in March last year.
