Two suicide car bomb attacks target pro-regime forces in Syria’s Aleppo in escalating violence, prompting UN chief to call for an end to fighting in the country’s northwest
FILE PHOTO: Smoke rises from a burnt car at the site of a truck blast in Azaz, Syria January 26, 2020.
The suicide attacks were carried out by militant group Hayat Tahrir al Sham and targeted the Jamiyat al Zahraa area on the western edge of Aleppo. A third car bomb was set off by remote control, a source with the group said. Syrian news agency SANA said regime's troops had destroyed four car bombs before they reached their targets in that area. Syrian regime forces were firing rockets and artillery at militant groups on the Jamiyat al-Zahraa front, it said. Militants had also fired rockets at residential districts of Aleppo.
"He reaffirms that attacks on civilians and civilian infrastructure, including on healthcare and educational facilities, are unacceptable."
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