<p>Two separate car bomb blasts in Turkish-controlled north Syria on Tuesday killed eight people, including two civilians, a Britain-based war monitor said.</p>.<p>On the outskirts of the town of Al-Bab, explosives planted in the car of a police chief from another district detonated and killed him, two policemen accompanying him, and two civilians, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said, adding 19 people were wounded.</p>.<p>And in the town of Afrin, a car bomb went off near a bakery, killing three people and wounding 16 others.</p>.<p>Turkey and its Syrian proxies control several pockets of territory on Syria's side of the border following three military incursions since 2016, against Islamic State group (IS) and Kurdish fighters.</p>.<p>There was no immediate claim of responsibility for either bombing.</p>.<p>But there have been a string of attacks in Al-Bab since its capture by Turkish troops from IS in 2017.</p>.<p>Several have also hit Afrin, which Turkey and its Syrian proxies seized from Kurdish fighters in 2018.</p>.<p>UN humanitarian official Mark Cutts deplored "another horrific car-bomb in Al-Bab today with more civilian casualties".</p>.<p>"Car-bombs remain a deadly scourge in Syria," he tweeted.</p>.<p>US-backed Kurdish forces seized the last scrap of that territorial proto-state from the jihadists in eastern Syria in March last year.</p>.<p>But the jihadist group continues to carry out attacks through a network of sleeper cells operating in some regions it used to control.</p>.<p>Syria's civil war has killed more than 380,000 people since it started with the repression of anti-government protests in 2011.</p>
<p>Two separate car bomb blasts in Turkish-controlled north Syria on Tuesday killed eight people, including two civilians, a Britain-based war monitor said.</p>.<p>On the outskirts of the town of Al-Bab, explosives planted in the car of a police chief from another district detonated and killed him, two policemen accompanying him, and two civilians, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said, adding 19 people were wounded.</p>.<p>And in the town of Afrin, a car bomb went off near a bakery, killing three people and wounding 16 others.</p>.<p>Turkey and its Syrian proxies control several pockets of territory on Syria's side of the border following three military incursions since 2016, against Islamic State group (IS) and Kurdish fighters.</p>.<p>There was no immediate claim of responsibility for either bombing.</p>.<p>But there have been a string of attacks in Al-Bab since its capture by Turkish troops from IS in 2017.</p>.<p>Several have also hit Afrin, which Turkey and its Syrian proxies seized from Kurdish fighters in 2018.</p>.<p>UN humanitarian official Mark Cutts deplored "another horrific car-bomb in Al-Bab today with more civilian casualties".</p>.<p>"Car-bombs remain a deadly scourge in Syria," he tweeted.</p>.<p>US-backed Kurdish forces seized the last scrap of that territorial proto-state from the jihadists in eastern Syria in March last year.</p>.<p>But the jihadist group continues to carry out attacks through a network of sleeper cells operating in some regions it used to control.</p>.<p>Syria's civil war has killed more than 380,000 people since it started with the repression of anti-government protests in 2011.</p>