At least 20 people, most of them, were killed in a car crisis in northern Syria, according to the country’s presidency.
The civil defense of Syria, also known as white helmets, said that a car filled with explosives had exploded on a main road in the southern outskirts of the city of Manbij while a flat -bed truck transporting About 30 agricultural workers has passed.
The agency had previously taken stock at 15, including 11 women and three girls. 15 other women and girls were injured, some of which are critically.
The presidency promised to make sure that the authors of what he described as a “terrorist” attack would face “most serious punishments”.
There was no immediate complaint from armed groups for the attack, which was the deadliest since the rebel forces spilled President Bashar al-Assad in December.
The commander of the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), an alliance led by the Kurds supported by the United States which controls a large part of Northeast of Syria, condemned the attack as a “criminal act” which threatened “the ‘National fabric unit “.
Earlier, his media chief alleged that such bombings were among the “fundamental tactics” used by the factions supported by the Turks known as the Syrian National Army (SNA), that the homeless fought in The Manbij region in the past two months.
The SNA did not comment on allegation. However, the Syrian Islamic Council based in Turkey accused the SDF of being behind the explosion.
Monday’s automotive bombing was the second type attack in the Manbij region in just three days.
On Saturday, two children and a woman were one of four people killed by an explosion on a street in the city center, said the civil defense of Syria.
The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, a surveillance group based in the United Kingdom, reported that the explosion was close to a military position by SNA and that nine people were killed, including several pro-Turchers .
While the ASSAD regime collapsed, the SNA launched an offensive to capture the territory west of the Euphrate river that the homeless man had held since the conduct of the Islamic State (IS) jihadist group in 2016.
The SNA took control of Manbij on December 9, after the combatants of the military council affiliated to the SDF withdrawn. But since then, the homeless has tried to resume the territory by launching a counter-offensive.
Turkey wants to remove the homeless from its border because it considers the Kurdish militia which dominates the alliance, the population protection units (YPG), as a terrorist organization. He indicates that the YPG is an extension of Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK), which fights for Kurdish autonomy in Türkiye for decades.
The automotive bombardment occurred among the talks between the transitional government of Syria and the homeless on the future of the Militia Alliance.
SDF commander Mazloum Abdi met President Ahmed Al-Sharaa in Damascus last week, and said to the Associated Press press agency On Sunday, the two parties negotiated with the help of Western mediators.
“Our vision of Syria is a decentralized, secular and civilian country based on democracy which preserves the rights of all its components,” he said, referring to the many religious and ethnic groups of the country.
When asked if he was ready to dissolve the homeless, Abdi said that in principle, he wanted to be part of the Syrian Defense Ministry and part of the country’s defense strategy, but that the details should still be discussed, according to AP.
Sharaa, whose Islamist group led the rebellious offensive that ended the Assad’s 24th anniversary rule, Turkish TV said last month that he wanted the Syrian Kurdish groups to disarm.
“Preventing blood effusions and treating everyone is our top priority. Therefore, we believe that all weapons must be under state control,” he said.