At least 10 Kurdish security force members were killed on Wednesday in a suicide bomb attack on their station in the northeastern Syrian city of Qamishli, a monitoring group said.
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The attack in northeastern city of Qamishli near the Turkish border hit a headquarters of the Asayish, an internal security force set up by the autonomous Kurdish administration that runs large areas of northern Syria. Islamic State militants beheaded al-Asaad in the ancient town of Palmyra, Syria, then strapped his body to one of the town’s Roman columns, Syrian state media and an activist group said Wednesday. It said 50 people were wounded.
According to a local journalist, the blast could be heard throughout the city.
“I wasn’t close, but I could hear it from where I was”, Shekhmos said, shortly after visiting the blast site. “There is a lot of destruction – the buildings on at least two streets have been completely destroyed”, Arin Shekhmos told the AFP news agency. Qamishli is a Kurdish-majority city in the Hasakah province, where in recent months the YPG have achieved several military successes against ISIS, in part thanks to US-led worldwide coalition airstrikes.
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Syria’s conflict, which began in March 2011, evolved from peaceful demonstrations to a multi-front war involving Kurds, rebels, jihadists and the regime.
