Kurdish forces open fire at protest; 1 killed

BEIRUT — One Syrian was killed on Sunday and four injured after Kurdish security forces opened fire at progovernment demonstrators in a northeastern city, state media said.

The state news agency SANA said the Kurdish forces opened fire at demonstrators protesting the siege on their neighborhood in Hassakeh city. The area is known as the security square and is controlled by government forces.

Separately, two car bombs went off two hours apart in the northwestern town of Azaz and another village some 30 miles away.

Nayef Al-Aboud / AFP via Getty Images Civilians carry young victims at the scene of an explosion in the town of Azaz in the rebel-controlled northern countryside of Syria’s Aleppo province on Sunday.