Car bombs kill at least 20 at Syrian Kurdish new year celebration
Two car bombs killed at least 20 Syrians celebrating Nowruz, the Iranian new year, in the northeast city of Hassaka, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights monitoring group said on Friday.
Syrian state television said the bombs exploded in the al-Mufti district of the city. Nowruz is a very important festival in Kurdish culture in which people gather to play games, dance and eat.
