At Least 10 Killed in Explosion in Syria’s Raqqa

Date: 02 June 2019 - 21:43

News ID: ۶۶۶۴۰

DAMASCUS (Dispatches) – At least 10 people were killed in a blast in Syria’s northern city of Raqqa, local media reported Sunday citing sources.
According to the Sky News Arabia broadcaster, an explosion of a bomb-laden car took place in the city.
The so-called Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, a London-based group reporting on anti-government operations in Syria, said late on Saturday that half of those killed in the city of Raqqa were members of the so-called Kurdish-dominated Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) who were caught in a major car bombing at the city’s al-Naim square.
It said several people had been wounded in a separate car bombing in another part of Raqqa where Daesh has been launching recurrent attacks over the past months.
In March, the Daesh terrorist group laid the mine in Hama's village of Najm az Zuhur, located to the north-east of the city of Salamiyah, two children were killed in the explosion.
Raqqa fell into the hands of the armed opposition in 2013 and was then captured by the Daesh terrorist group that proclaimed the city its de facto capital. In 2016, the SDF launched a campaign to win the city back from the terrorists. The operation culminated in the 2017 Battle of Raqqa, which eventually allowed the SDF to gain control over the city.
The SDF is also busy fighting Turkish military and its associated militants as Ankara sees Kurdish militants in Syria as an extension of militancy inside its own territories.
Daesh has been almost purged from entire territories it used to control in Syria and neighboring Iraq. However, sporadic attacks by the group are still reported in the two countries.
Syria, gripped by a militant war since 2011 that has left hundreds of thousands killed, has managed to take back control of many territories from Daesh and other terrorist groups. The devastating war has also displaced millions of people inside the Arab country and into other places.