Two car bombs exploded Monday afternoon on the Syrian side of the Bab al-Hawa border crossing between Syria and Turkey.
The border
crossing is under control of the Islamic Front, activists accused the state of
Iraq and The Levant of the car bombs as a response to the ongoing fighting
between al-Qaeda-linked group and Islamist rebels for over 20 day.
ISIL’s official Twitter account denied the responsibility of car bombs where pro-al-Qaeda cyber activists said the attacks' purpose is to blow up the initiative that carried by ISIL chief Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi to stop the infighting.
The ISIL has reached out to other rebel groups in Syria to head off infighting, in an audio message posted online Sunday.
"Today, the (Islamic) state is reaching out to you to stop fighting us, to focus on fighting the nusairiyah," the voice in the message, purportedly that of ISIL chief Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, said, using the term often used by jihadists when referring to the Syrian regime.
Al-Arabiya television cited activists as saying that a number of civilians were killed and injured by the blasts.
The anti-regime Local Coordination Committees said that ten people had been killed in the blasts.
Meanwhile, videos posted on YouTube showed scenes of carnage and destruction following the twin car bombings.
Early today, rebels have foiled a suicide attack by a woman operated under the ISIL at Bab Al Salameh border crossing with Turkey.
A string of car bombs have hit the Islamist rebels' barracks and checkpoints, carried by the Islamic State of Iraq and The Levant (ISIL) since the infighting has erupted two weeks ago.
Suicide attacks and blasts seemed to be one of most dangerous war strategies by Al Qaeda radicals, which left dozens of people killed and wounded.
The recent car bombs were in Idlib and Aleppo like Jarabulus, Darkoush, Kafr Nouran, Auweirig village and most formed ISIL’s headquarters.
Syrian activists yesterday posted online a warning for people of rebel-held areas to avoid strange things and to report about any suspicions of weird cars and baggage.
The Syrian Revolutionaries Front and the nascent Mujahedeen Army, the Islamic Front has been engaged in fierce fighting with ISIL in rebel-held areas.
10 days ago, rebels overran the Aleppo headquarters of the ISIL, as claims emerged that the ISIL had massacred prisoners there in cold blood.
The latest clashes broke out after residents accused ISIL members of killing a doctor in Syria’s northern province of Aleppo.
Syria's armed uprising began as a series of peaceful democracy protests 33 months ago but escalated into a full-blown civil war after Assad's regime launched a brutal crackdown on dissent.
The conflict is estimated to have killed around 130,000 people and displaced millions more.
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