A fuel truck bomb killed 36 people including at least six Turkey-backed rebel fighters on April 28, 2020 in the northern Syrian city of Afrin, controlled by Ankara’s proxies.
It was not immediately clear who was behind the blast, one of the largest to rock Afrin since Turkish troops and allied rebels seized the region from Kurdish forces in March 2018 after a two-month air and ground offensive.
The Turkish defense ministry blamed Tuesday’s attack on the Kurdish People’s Protection Units (YPG) which it views as a “terrorist” offshoot of the outlawed Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK).
