{"id":11662,"date":"2019-11-11T10:22:49","date_gmt":"2019-11-11T05:22:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/?p=11662"},"modified":"2019-11-11T10:22:49","modified_gmt":"2019-11-11T05:22:49","slug":"bomb-blast-kills-eight-in-turkish-held-syrian-town","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/archives\/11662","title":{"rendered":"Bomb Blast Kills Eight in Turkish-held Syrian Town"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"teaser-content\">\n<section>\n<div>\n<p class=\"font--body font-copy color-gray-darkest ma-0 pad-bottom-md undefined\">A car bomb in northern Syria killed at least eight civilians and wounded 20 others Sunday in a town near the border with Turkey, Turkey\u2019s Defense Ministry said.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p class=\"font--body font-copy color-gray-darkest ma-0 pad-bottom-md undefined\">The explosion struck a town south of the city of Tal Abyad, the ministry said. The city was captured last month by Turkish troops and Turkey-backed opposition forces from Kurdish-led fighters.<\/p>\n<p>The village of Suluk, where Sunday&#8217;s explosion took place, is about 10km (4.5 miles) south of the border. A small truck exploded outside a bakery there, according to an emergency worker .<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"remainder-content\">\n<section>\n<div>\n<p class=\"font--body font-copy color-gray-darkest ma-0 pad-bottom-md undefined\">The ministry blamed Syrian Kurdish fighters for the attack, accusing them of \u201cmassacring innocent civilians.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p class=\"font--body font-copy color-gray-darkest ma-0 pad-bottom-md undefined\">The attack came more than a week after a similar car bomb attack in central Tal Abyad killed 13 people.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p class=\"font--body font-copy color-gray-darkest ma-0 pad-bottom-md undefined\">Turkey halted its military advance inside Syria when it\u00a0 struck deals with the United States \u00a0and Russia for the Kurdish People&#8217;s Protection Units (YPG), considered a &#8220;terrorist group&#8221; by Ankara, to be moved at least 30km (20 miles) away from the border with Turkey.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p class=\"font--body font-copy color-gray-darkest ma-0 pad-bottom-md undefined\">Ankara considers the Kurdish-led forces to be terrorists because of their links to Kurdish militants fighting inside Turkey.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A car bomb in northern Syria killed at least eight civilians and wounded 20 others Sunday in a town near the border with Turkey, Turkey\u2019s Defense Ministry said. The explosion struck a town south of the city of Tal Abyad, the ministry said. The city was captured last month by Turkish troops and Turkey-backed opposition [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":11663,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1460,31],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11662","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-middle-east","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11662","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11662"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11662\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11664,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11662\/revisions\/11664"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11663"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11662"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11662"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11662"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}