A car bomb exploded late Friday in the centre of the flashpoint northern Syria town of Manbij, causing damage but no casualties, a war monitor said.
There was no immediate claim of responsibility for the blast, said the Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, which has a network of sources inside Syria.
Manbij, which had for years been held by Kurdish-led forces, fell earlier this month to pro-Turkey armed groups.
The White Helmets rescuers group also reported the blast, posting on its Telegram channel late Friday: “A car bomb exploded outside the grand mosque in central Manbij.”
The Observatory said it was the second such attack in days. On Tuesday, bombs in a car killed two people in Manbij, the war monitor said.
Friday’s attack caused “material damage, but there were no immediate reports of human losses,” it added.
Manbij witnessed another explosion on Tuesday, where two people were killed and four others were injured after an explosive device targeted the recruitment building in the city.
The SDF forces were also accused of carrying out the operation, especially after the factions of the "Syrian National Army" took control of the city and expelled the SDF forces from it.
In a related context, two members of the Turkish-backed Syrian National Army were killed during violent clashes on Friday that erupted with the SDF forces around the Tishrin Dam in the eastern countryside of Aleppo.
The National Army announced full control over the city of Manbij and Tal Rifaat, but the skirmishes are still ongoing.
The region has witnessed a state of security and military escalation between the two parties since the start of military operations at the end of November and the subsequent fall of the Assad regime on December 8.
With AFP
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