At least 15 farm workers killed in car bomb blast in Northern Syria

A police van drives in front of a municipal building in the central Syrian city of Hama on January 27, 2025. On February 2, 1982, amid an information blackout, toppled Syian president Bashar al-Assad's father and then leader, Hafez, launched a crackdown in Hama in central Syria against an armed Muslim Brotherhood revolt. The death toll of the 27 days of violence has never been formally established, though estimates range from 10,000 to 40,000, with some even higher. [AFP]

A car bomb on Monday killed 15 people, mostly women farm workers, in the northern Syrian city of Manbij where Kurdish forces are battling Turkey-backed groups, state media reported.

Citing White Helmet rescuers, SANA news agency said there had been a "massacre" on a local road, with "the explosion of a car bomb near a vehicle transporting agricultural workers" killing 14 women and one man.