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On Tuesday, 18 people were killed, including 13 civilians, and dozens injured, when a car bomb exploded in a city controlled by Turkish forces and pro-Syrian factions in northern Syria, according to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights.
The observatory reported that the car exploded near a bus and taxi station in the center of Al-Bab city in Aleppo’s northeast countryside, killing 18 people. At least 75 other people were also injured, some of them in critical condition.
The observatory suggested that the result would increase.
Mark Cutts, deputy regional humanitarian affairs coordinator for the Syrian crisis at the United Nations, tweeted: “We condemn in the strongest terms these blind attacks on civilians.”
No one has claimed responsibility for the explosion in the city, which has been controlled by Turkish forces and Syrian factions loyal to them since February 2017, following a large-scale attack it launched in the region against ISIS.
The city was considered the stronghold of ISIS in the Aleppo governorate, before being expelled from it.
The city sees security chaos from time to time and assassinations of leaders of pro-Ankara factions, according to the observatory.
It was also the scene of attacks with car bombs and car bombs, of which the extremist organization claimed responsibility for the execution of several of them. Since mid-March 2011, Syria has been experiencing a bloody conflict, which has resulted in the deaths of more than 380,000 people and the displacement and displacement of more than half of the population within and outside the country.
