Baladi News
A bomb in the northwest Syrian town of Afrin killed three civilians and wounded about 20 on a public bus, several witnesses told Reuters on Sunday.
The blast, which no group has claimed responsibility for, came on the anniversary of Operation Olive Branch, an air and ground assault launched by Turkey in 2018 on the mainly-Kurdish Afrin to drive out the People's Protection Units ( YPG.)
It follows a blast on Wednesday in Manbij, a northern Syrian town controlled by a militia allied with US-backed Kurdish forces, claimed by Daesh, which killed four US troops and two civilians working for the US military.
Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan announced last month that his army would launch an operation against the YPG east of the Euphrates. US President Donald Trump later announced a decision to pull out of Syria, alarming allied Kurdish leaders who run much of the north.
Turkey’s state-owned Anadolu Agency said two bombs hit Afrin’s city centre, one exploding on a bus and the second in a garbage container.
Source: Middle East Monitor.