Blast in Market of North Syrian Border Town Kills 8: Report
A state agency said the blast was caused by a car bomb while the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said explosion was caused by a motorcycle with explosives.
Turkey’s Defense Ministry blamed the attack on Kurdish insurgents, as it has in dozens of other such incidents. Ankara has blamed explosions that killed and wounded dozens of people in northeast Syria in recent months on Kurdish fighters linked to the Kurdistan Workers’ Party, or PKK, which has waged a decades-long insurgency inside Turkey It views the Kurdish fighters as terrorists, though the same fighters had partnered with the U.S. against the Islamic State group.
Turkey controls most Syrian territory bordering its southern frontier after a series of military operations. Last October, Turkish troops crossed into Syria’s northeast, capturing the Ras al-Ayn area in driving Kurdish fighters away from the border after the U.S. withdrew most of its forces from the region.
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