Unidentified gunmen fired at the vehicle carrying Turkish Red Crescent personnel, killing one and injuring another on Monday morning.
“An armed attack on a Turkish Red Crescent vehicle in Al Bab, Syria, killed one Red Crescent staff member and wounded another,” Turkish Red Crescent tweeted.
In December 2016, al-Bab came under an attack by Syrian rebels backed by Turkey. Turkish air strikes on 21 December destroyed 67 Islamic State targets; 59 Turkish soldiers and over 200 rebels were reported killed.
Al-Bab was a strategically important town for Turkey because it did not want the two SDF regions to link up. (ILKHA)