Two car bombs kill at least 20 people in eastern Syria
BEIRUT: Two car bombs exploded in the eastern Syrian city of Hasaka on Monday, one killing at least 20 people, state television said, in attacks also reported by a monitoring group.
The first blast hit Khashman area in the north of the city targeting Kurdish fighters there and killing six of them, the Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said. The second hit its centre, killing at least 20 people, according to state television.
The Observatory said the second blast went off a near Syrian government forces headquarters. It gave a lower initial toll of at least 10 people killed in both blasts, and dozens more injured. Hasaka is mostly Kurdish-controlled, after advances in the area this year by Kurdish militia the People’s Protection Units (YPG).
The city was divided into zones controlled by the Syrian government and the Kurds until an Islamic State attack in June. Overstretched government forces collapsed in the face of that attack, leaving the city’s defence to the YPG, which now controls nearly all of Hasaka.
The YPG has mostly avoided conflict with Syrian government forces, focussing instead on repelling Islamic State.
The militia has seized wide areas of territory from Islamic State this year, backed by U.S.-led air strikes.
Meanwhile, a large cache of Israeli-made weapons was seized in Zabadani region during the mop-up operations by the Lebanese Hezbollah Resistance Movement.
After 10 days of the Syrian army and Hezbollah troops’ massive operations to cleanse different districts in Southwestern Zabadani region, efforts still continue to discover the terrorists’ linking tunnels and hideouts. Only on Monday morning, Hezbollah forces could purge the terrorists from nearly 15 residential blocks in the Eastern part of al-Jasr mosque. Also they arrested three members of Ahrar al-Sham terrorist group during their house to house searching in Zabadani.
Hezbollah forces also discovered and seized a large cache of Israeli-made weapons and military equipment in areas near al-Rahmah mosque in the Central parts of Zabadani. The Syrian army and popular forces retook the city of Zabadani from terrorists on September 1. The Lebanese Hezbollah resistance forces almost completed their mop-up operations in the city of Zabadani that was seized back from the terrorists last Wednesday. “The resistance forces have purged terrorists from Zabadani in a two-day operation,” an informed source told FNA. The source reiterated that the terrorists had dug tunnels underneath the buildings in Zabadani to get to other parts of the city.
Then on Thursday, Israel attacked a position of the Syrian Army in Zabadani that was used by government and Hezbollah’s joint troops to pound terrorists, according to a military source.
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