Car Bomb in Northeastern Syria Kills at Least 19
A car bomb killed at least 19 people in northeastern Syria today, local media and organizations reported. The bombing is the second such attack in Manbij in only three days, with the escalating violence raising concerns about the potential for peaceful rebuilding in post-Assad Syria.
According to the Syrian state-run SANA news agency, the explosion took place on the outskirts of Manbij, a city in the Aleppo governorate, killing 14 female agricultural workers and one man. At least 15 more women were wounded, some critically. The UK-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights reported that 19 people total were killed.
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No group has claimed responsibility for the attack.
The city of Manbij changed hands numerous times since the start of the conflict in Syria in 2011, being controlled in turn by Syrian rebels, the Islamic State group, the US-backed Kurdish group known as the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), and most recently the Turkish-backed Syrian National Army (SNA). Even after the fall of Syrian ruler Bashar Assad in December 2024, Manbij has remained a site of violence, as the SDF continues to clash with the SNA.
The head of the SDF, Mazloum Abdi, has consistently rejected calls to disarm his forces but has said that he is open to discussion regarding integration into a single Syrian army.
