{"id":13495,"date":"2018-09-01T12:33:50","date_gmt":"2018-09-01T12:33:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=13495"},"modified":"2018-09-01T12:33:50","modified_gmt":"2018-09-01T12:33:50","slug":"syrias-war-deadly-car-bomb-attack-hits-rebel-held-azaz","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=13495","title":{"rendered":"Syria&#8217;s war: Deadly car bomb attack hits rebel-held Azaz"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"body-200771816342556199\" readability=\"88.6516544118\">\n<p class=\"speakable\">A car bomb attack in a rebel-held town near <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/topics\/country\/syria.html\">Syria<\/a>&#8216;s border with Turkey has killed at least one person and wounded several others, according to an opposition-affiliated TV station.<\/p>\n<p class=\"speakable\"><span>Halab Today reported that the explosion occurred on Saturday in Azaz, a town located 32km north of the city of Aleppo.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"speakable\"><span>A video, posted on Twitter by Halab Today showed blood splattered streets and the wreckage of several vehicles with the sounds of sirens wailing in the background. \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\" readability=\"4.23333333333\">\n<p dir=\"rtl\" lang=\"ar\">???????: ???? ???? ?? ?????? ???????? ??????? ????? ????? ??? ????? <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/%D8%A7%D8%B9%D8%B2%D8%A7%D8%B2?src=hash&#038;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#?????<\/a> ?? ??? <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/%D8%AD%D9%84%D8%A8?src=hash&#038;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#???<\/a> ??????? <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/pDeIaKY6W1\">pic.twitter.com\/pDeIaKY6W1<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 HalabToday ??? ????? (@HalabTodayTV) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/HalabTodayTV\/status\/1035804326592229378?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">September 1, 2018<\/a>\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Al Jazeera could not immediately verify the report.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Khaled Khatib, a spokesman for the White Helmet rescue service, told Anadolou news agency that &#8220;one person was killed and 17 others injured in the bombing&#8221;.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Photos and videos posted on Twitter of the explosion showed plumes of black smoke as people rushed to evacuate the wounded from the scene of the blast.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>No organisation has claimed responsibility for the attack.<\/p>\n<p>The explosion comes amid <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/news\/2018\/08\/renews-warning-government-offensive-syria-idlib-180831185802644.html\">fears of a large-scale government offensive<\/a> retake the neighbouring province of Idlib, Syria&#8217;s last rebel stronghold, in what could be the last major battle of the seven-year-old Syrian war.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The UN has expressed concern that the offensive on Idlib would trigger a new wave of displacement that could uproot an estimated 800,000 people.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The war in Syria has killed more than half a million people, wounded one million and forced about 12 million people &#8211; half the country&#8217;s pre-war population &#8211; from their homes.\u00a0<\/p>\n<div>\n<div class=\"imagecontainer item\" data-image-url=\"http:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/mritems\/Images\/2018\/8\/8\/df8609649fa04eb589bf9fd3a7639e14_6.jpg\">\n<table class=\"image\" border=\"0\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/mritems\/Images\/2018\/8\/8\/df8609649fa04eb589bf9fd3a7639e14_6.jpg\" border=\"0\"><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td class=\"caption\">\u00a0<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A car bomb attack in a rebel-held town near Syria&#8217;s border with Turkey has killed at least one person and wounded several others, according to an opposition-affiliated TV station. Halab Today reported that the explosion occurred on Saturday in Azaz, a town located 32km north of the city of Aleppo. 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