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A car bomb exploded in a busy market in a northern Syrian town controlled by Turkey-based Syrian opposition ... The bomb exploded in the town of Azaz in Syria’s Aleppo province.

Tensions increased on the rebel-Kurdish militia front in Aleppo, which borders Turkey, after a car bomb at a roadblock near the rebel city of Azaz last week reportedly killed at least eight people.