At least eight people, including children, were killed in two car bomb blasts in northern Syria on Sunday, according to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights.

One of the blasts hit a car repair shop in Sava, a village near the Turkish border controlled by pro-Turkish militants, residents told AFP.

Five civilians, including three children, were killed and ten others wounded in this attack, the Syrian Observatory said.

Areas seized by Turkey and Ankara-linked groups in northern Syria are regularly the scene of targeted killings, bombings and clashes between armed groups.

In the second incident, in Manbij an explosive device planted in a vehicle killed three fighters linked to the Kurdish-dominated Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), according to the Observatory.

No organization has claimed responsibility for these attacks.

The SDF, dominated by the Kurds and backed by Washington, has been at the forefront of the war against Islamic State, which was driven from its strongholds in Syria in 2019.

Turkey considers the main component of the SDF, the YPG (People’s Protection Units), to be an extension of the PKK, which Ankara considers a “terrorist” organization.