Bomb blast kills 40 people in Syrian town of Afrin

The Turkish Defence Ministry said that at least 40 civilians were killed, including 11 children,in a deadliest bomb attack in the northern Syrian town of Afrin on Tuesday. The Defence Ministry has held the Syrian Kurdish YPG militia responsible for the attack. Turkey’s military and its Syrian rebel allies had seized Afrin, a mainly Kurdish district, from the YPG in March 2018 in a major offensive.