(Zaman Al Wasl)- At least three civilians were killed on Thursday by a bomb hidden in a motorbike in the Syrian border region of Ras Al-Ayn, which is controlled by the Turkish army, local council said.
The local governing body said the booby-trapped motorbike exploded in Al-Alyia area south of Hasakah city, killing three people and wounding others.
Car bombs and blast have become the new attack tactic by Kurdish militias to target pro-Turkey fighters, such a deadly tactic has claimed the lives of tens of civilians as blasts hit marketplaces and bus terminals in the towns of Afrin, al-Bab, Jarablus and Tal Abyad.
The Turkish military and the Syrian National Army attacked Kurdish forces in northeastern Syria on October 9 with the aim of creating a roughly 30-kilometer (20-mile) deep buffer zone.
Turkey subsequently reached a deal with the Syrian regime's main backer Russia for Kurdish forces to pull back from the entire border area.
Turkey's military took the Kurdish-held border areas in northern Syria immediately after US forces were withdrawn last October. Turkey has a longstanding enmity with the Kurds and wants to push back the YPG from its border.
Turkey claims the YPG is a "terrorist" offshoot of the outlawed Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK), which has fought an insurgency against the Turkish state since 1984.
Two weeks ago, 48 civilians were killed, including 11 children, when a bomb detonated in Afrin.
The blast was one of the deadliest to hit a region under the control of Turkish-backed forces. Ankara frequently blames the YPG for the attacks, while the militia says it does not target civilians, Reuters reported.
Ankara views the YPG as a terrorist group linked to Kurdish militants on its own soil and has mounted military operations in northern Syria to push it back from the border.
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