Several people were killed Thursday in two bomb blasts in the cities of al-Bab and Afrin in the countryside of Aleppo, and Turkey announced the death of two of its soldiers in the south of the country on the border with Syria, due to shells from the Syrian side.
Al-Jazeera correspondent reported that an explosive device explosion in the center of al-Bab city in eastern Aleppo countryside left a number of wounded, and that another explosion in a car bomb was carried out near Al-Farabi Hospital in Ashrafieh neighborhood of Afrin city north of Aleppo.
This comes after several civilians and four members of the Civil Defense (White Helmets) were wounded late in the night by rocket shelling by regime forces and Russia on the countryside of Jisr al-Shughour in Idlib province, despite the passage of two months since the last aerial bombardments in the area, according to Sham Network.
The towns of the southern and eastern Idlib countryside have suffered in recent weeks from aerial and missile shelling by regime forces and Russia, especially the city of Kfarnabal and its countryside, causing displacement of the area's population and significant destruction of infrastructure.
In another context, the Turkish Defense Ministry said today that two soldiers were killed in the south of the country in a mortar attack yesterday on a military base in the border town of Aqja Qala, an interview for the Syrian town of Tal Abyad, which was controlled by Turkey and its allies from the Syrian opposition and expelled from the Kurdish People's Protection Units the past.
A statement from the ministry said that Turkish forces opened fire immediately at the source of the attack, and that operations in the area were continuing.