Bombings kill six civilians in Syria's main Kurdish citySimultanaous blasts near a busy market and a school in Syria's Kurdish-majority city of Qamishli killed six people and wounded 22. QAMISHLI (SYRIA) - Three simultaneous bombings killed at least six civilians Monday in the northeastern Syrian city of Qamishli, the latest attack to target the de-facto capital of the country's embattled Kurdish minority. - Armenian priest killed -The blasts came after IS claimed to have killed an Armenian Catholic priest from Qamishli. A Turkish cross-border attack against Kurdish fighters on October 9 heightened fears that IS fighters could break out in mass from Kurdish jails. But a fragile Turkish-Russian ceasefire deal has more or less halted that offensive, and seen Kurdish forces withdraw from areas along the Turkish border, except Qamishli.

Source: Bangkok Post November 11, 2019 17:47 UTC