(Zaman Al Wasl)- Nine people, including rebel fighters, have been killed in a suicide bomb attack in northern Azaz town at the Turkish border, local reporter said Sunday.
The suicide bombers blew himself up in a building belongs to al-Jabah al-Shamiya, key rebel group operating in Aleppo province.
No ISIS or rival group have claimed the responsibility for the attack that also left 11 people wounded.
Also in Aleppo, the United Nation's humanitarian coordination agency (OCHA) said Sunday a total of 66,000 people have been displaced by fighting along two fronts in Syria's fractured north,
"This includes nearly 40,000 people from Al-Bab city and nearby Taduf town, as well as 26,000 people from communities to the east of Al-Bab" in northern Aleppo province, OCHA said.
Turkey-backed rebels seized Al-Bab from the Islamic State group on February 23 after several months of fighting.
OCHA said the 39,766 people displaced from the town fled north to areas controlled by other rebel forces, and that the "high contamination" of unexploded bombs and booby traps set by retreating jihadists was complicating efforts to return.
And since February 25, OCHA said, another 26,000 people fled violence east of Al-Bab, where Syrian government forces have also been waging a fierce offensive against IS.
Since war broke out in Syria in March 2011, more than half of its population has been forced to flee their homes.
Aleppo province hosts tens of thousands of displaced Syrians, many in camps near the Turkish border.
In next-door province of Idlib, at least 6 civilians have been killed early Sunday in regime airstrikes that hit the southern countryside of Idlib province, local activists said.
A woman and a child were among the victims of 8 raids hit the town of Kafranbel. 19 more people have been wounded in the aerial attack that reduced entire buildings to rubble. (With AFP)
The suicide bombers blew himself up in a building belongs to al-Jabah al-Shamiya, key rebel group operating in Aleppo province.
No ISIS or rival group have claimed the responsibility for the attack that also left 11 people wounded.
Also in Aleppo, the United Nation's humanitarian coordination agency (OCHA) said Sunday a total of 66,000 people have been displaced by fighting along two fronts in Syria's fractured north,
"This includes nearly 40,000 people from Al-Bab city and nearby Taduf town, as well as 26,000 people from communities to the east of Al-Bab" in northern Aleppo province, OCHA said.
Turkey-backed rebels seized Al-Bab from the Islamic State group on February 23 after several months of fighting.
OCHA said the 39,766 people displaced from the town fled north to areas controlled by other rebel forces, and that the "high contamination" of unexploded bombs and booby traps set by retreating jihadists was complicating efforts to return.
And since February 25, OCHA said, another 26,000 people fled violence east of Al-Bab, where Syrian government forces have also been waging a fierce offensive against IS.
Since war broke out in Syria in March 2011, more than half of its population has been forced to flee their homes.
Aleppo province hosts tens of thousands of displaced Syrians, many in camps near the Turkish border.
In next-door province of Idlib, at least 6 civilians have been killed early Sunday in regime airstrikes that hit the southern countryside of Idlib province, local activists said.
A woman and a child were among the victims of 8 raids hit the town of Kafranbel. 19 more people have been wounded in the aerial attack that reduced entire buildings to rubble. (With AFP)
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