Double bombing hits Syria's Afrin
A double bombing killed nine people on Wednesday in Afrin in northwest Syria, an area held by Turkey-backed rebel groups who seized it in an offensive earlier this year, a war monitor said.
One blast struck near Dowar Kawa al-Hadad in Afrin city centre, the other near a headquarters for Turkish forces on a road leading to a hospital, said the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights.
The Turkey-backed rebels gained control of Afrin in March after driving out the Kurdish YPG militia, which Ankara regards as a terrorist group linked to the PKK that has waged a three-decade insurgency inside Turkey.
