Smoke rise following suicide Hasaka bombing (video)

Thick smoke rose from a burning vehicle and metal pieces were scattered near a checkpoint in northeastern Syria on Monday (January 21), after a suicide bombing injured several soldiers of Kurdish-led forces during a joint convoy with U.S. allies, footage on social media footage showed.

The attack happened on the western edge of Shadadi town in Hasaka province near a route frequented by the US-led coalition fighting ISIS, residents and sources said. In a tweet, the coalition said a convoy with allied Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) was involved in an attack, but there were no American casualties.

Coalition planes flew overhead after the blast around 11 a.m., a Syria-based aid agency worker said, adding that colleagues had reported several casualties including Kurdish soldiers, coalition troops and civilians.

Residents say there has been a spike in recent months in attacks on SDF checkpoints in the swathe of territory it controls in northeast Syria on the border with Turkey, down the Euphrates River towards the border with Iraq.

Four US citizens died in an ISIS-claimed bombing last week in Manbij city, run by the SDF which is spearheaded by the Syrian Kurdish YPG militia.