AT LEAST 44 KILLED IN BLAST IN NORTHERN SYRIA

At least 44 people were killed and 140 injured Wednesday in an explosion in the northern Syrian town of Qamishli near the Turkish border, Syrian state media reported. The government-controlled SANA agency said a car bomb was used in the attack.

The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, a monitoring group based in Britain, said the explosion was a truck bomb that went off near Kurdish security headquarters. It said a second explosion turned out to be a fuel tank that supplies a neighborhood power station.

The Islamic State claimed responsibility for the attack, the BBC reported.

— Doug Stanglin