Foreign intervention in behalf of Syrian rebels U.S.-led intervention against ISIL The January 2017 Azaz bombing occurred on 7 January 2017 when a car bomb exploded in front of a courthouse and near a market in the rebel-held city of Azaz, Syria, killing at least 60 people, mostly civilians, and wounding around 50 others.

[1] The Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant was suspected and blamed for the attack.

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