Car blast in Syria’s Afrin leaves casualties
AFRIN, Syria (North Press) – On Tuesday morning, an IED exploded in the car of a leader of a Turkish-backed local council in the city of Afrin in northwestern Syria.
The IED was planted in the car of the so-called Abu Ammar, who is in charge of the Security Department of the Local Council in al-Zaydiyah neighborhood in the city of Afrin.
The explosion resulted in the killing of Abu Ammar and the injury of two militants of his companions, according to Afrin News Website. However, websites of the Syrian Turkish-backed opposition said he was injured not killed, without providing any other details.
The Kurdish-city of Afrin has been under the occupation of the Turkish forces and their affiliated armed opposition factions, aka the Syrian national army (SNA), since March 2018 following the so-called “Olive Branch” military operation to push away the Kurdish People’s Protection Units (YPG) under the pretext of protecting “Turkish national security.”
The operation caused the displacement of about 300,000 of the original inhabitants of the Kurds of Afrin who have been taking shelter in 42 villages and five camps in Aleppo northern countryside, locally known as Shahba region, since then.
The SNA-controlled areas in northern Syria in general witness a state of security chaos accompanied by bombings and frequent cases of fighting, amid the inability of the factions to provide stability.