Car bombs kill at least 12 in Aleppo, Syria

Damascus, February 1 (RHC)-- In Syria, a pair of car bomb blasts tore through parts of northern Aleppo on Sunday, killing at least a dozen people and leaving 29 others wounded.  The explosions took place in an area controlled by anti-government rebels backed by Turkey.

Elsewhere, Kurdish forces opened fire on a pro-government demonstration in the city of Hasaka Sunday, killing a protester and injuring three others.

In other news from Syria, United Nations officials are calling on countries to repatriate 27,000 children trapped in a camp in northeastern Syria.  Many of the children’s parents were members of the Islamic State who fled to the al-Hol camp after the group lost its last territory in Syria in 2019.