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At Least 20 Dead After IS Attack at Syria Border Crossing

by VOA News

   The Islamic State group claimed responsibility for a bomb blast that
   killed at least 20 people, most of whom were Turkish-backed opposition
   fighters along Syria's northwestern border with Turkey.

   A suicide car bomber targeted a convoy of rebel troops near the border
   crossing in the village of Atmeh, just a short distance away from where
   the rebels and the jihadist group had been fighting along another
   stretch of the border.

   The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, a British-based non-profit
   group, put the number of dead at 21.

   The Islamic State group took credit for the attack in an online
   statement.

   Those killed include a judge and another top civil judicial figure from
   the rebel-held eastern Aleppo, according to a rebel official.

   One witness told Reuters most of those killed in the blast were members
   of the Failiq al-Sham group, which has been fighting alongside Turkish
   soldiers to defeat the IS group.