Alwaght- At least three civilians have been killed and 20 more people were killed on a public bus after a bomb in the northwest Syrian town of Afrin killed.
The official SANA news agency also said the explosion was caused by an explosive device, and that it appears to have been a “terrorist attack”.
Meanwhile, the so-called Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said the attack took place near a military intelligence office, and that it had killed and wounded an unspecified number of people.
The blast 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 Syrian Kurdish YPG, which it sees as an extension of the outlawed Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) that has waged an insurgency on Turkish soil since 1984.
No group has claimed responsibility for the attack.
It follows a blast on Wednesday in Manbij, a northern Syrian town controlled by a militia allied with US-backed Kurdish forces, claimed by ISIS, which killed two US troops and two civilians working for the US military.
