BEIRUT, Lebanon - At least "eight people were killed and 23 others wounded" when "a car bomb exploded in the middle of a popular market" in Azaz, in Aleppo province, said the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, adding the toll was provisional.The Britain-based Observatory, which has a network of sources inside Syria, said the blast caused "significant damage" and sparked a fire, adding that ambulances and rescue personnel were at the scene.
Syria's war began after the government repressed peaceful protests in 2011 and escalated into a deadly conflict that pulled in jihadists and foreign armies.The war has killed more than 507,000 people, displaced millions, and battered the country's infrastructure and industry.
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