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Car bomb kills 10 in Syria border town

A car bomb killed at least 10 people Wednesday (June 29th) in a Syrian town near the Turkish border held by the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), an Arab-Kurd alliance, AFP reported.

Another nine people were wounded in the attack in Tal Abyad, which was captured from the "Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant" (ISIL) in June last year, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said.

An SDF official said the car bomb was detonated outside offices of the Kurdish autonomous administration on the town's main street. He said nine people were killed.

Meanwhile, ISIL fighters pushed back a Syrian opposition offensive to retake a key route between Syria and Iraq, the Observatory said Wednesday.

The New Syrian Army (NSA), backed by coalition strikes, had advanced overnight on ISIL-held territory near the Albu Kamal border crossing, "in co-ordination with the Iraqi side".

The Observatory said the NSA had seized the small al-Hamdan airbase nearby, but ISIL had recaptured it by Wednesday afternoon.

Observatory head Rami Abdel Rahman said NSA units were still inside Deir Ezzor province where Albu Kamal lies, but had been forced to retreat.

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