17 killed in car bomb in Turkey-controlled region of Syria
A car bomb killed at least 17 people and wounded 20
others in the Turkish-controlled region of northern Syria on Tuesday, Turkey’s
defense ministry said.
The attack took place in the Tal Halaf village west
of the city of Ras al-Ayn, which is now controlled by the Turkish military
after its offensive in October, the ministry said on its official Twitter
account, blaming Syrian Kurdish fighters.
On Monday a Turkish security source said that Turkey
is fully abiding by the agreements it reached with Russia and the United States
regarding northeast Syria and is not resuming its military offensive, a
security source said on Monday.
Ankara reached separate agreements with Moscow and
Washington last month to remove the Kurdish-led YPG militia from a swathe of
land in northeast Syria bordering Turkey, which in return stopped its military
offensive against the militia.
