An attack has once again plunged Syria into mourning. A car bomb exploded early Sunday morning in a market in a town in the north of the country held by pro-Turkish forces, killing at least eight people and injuring 23, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said. (OSDH).
According to this NGO based in Great Britain but which has an important network of sources in Syria, the explosion in Azaz, north of the province of Aleppo, caused “significant damage” and started a fire. The assessment is provisional.
A country divided since 2011
The OSDH also announced earlier on Saturday that 52 Syrian and Lebanese Hezbollah soldiers and fighters had been killed in strikes attributed to Israel on Friday in Aleppo.
Syria was fragmented by the war which broke out in 2011 after the repression of pro-democracy demonstrations, and the Turkish army controls two large border areas with affiliated groups after carrying out large-scale operations against Kurdish groups. Islamic State (IS) fighters, hidden in the Syrian desert, have renewed their attacks against the troops of Bashar al-Assad’s regime since the start of the year.