(Zaman Al Wasl)- At least five people were killed and dozens wounded in a car bomb attack inin the the Turkish-held Ras al-Ayn region in northeastern Syria, activists said Tuesday.
The blast rocked the main marketplace of the Tal Halaf town north of Hasaka city, leaving dozens killed and wounded.
Car bombs have become the main tactic of Kurdish militias to target pro-Turkey fighters, where tens of people have been killed since October 2019.
Turkey's military took the Kurdish-held border areas in northern Syria immediately after US forces were withdrawn last October.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.
Turkish forces have created a 120-kilometre (75-mile) "safe zone" between Tal Abyad and the town of Ras al-Ain, pushing the YPG out of the area.
The nine-year-old conflict has killed more than 490,000 people and displaced 13 million.
Zaman Al Wasl
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