A car bomb exploded today in a camp for the ‎Syrian internally displaced persons (IDPs) to the northeast ‎of Raqqa, leaving tens killed or injured. ‎

Activists said that the blast took place in the ‎Mabrokat camp on the road of al-Hasaka. It killed ‎at least 13 and injured tens in an initial death ‎toll. ‎

In the last months, large numbers of Syrians ‎fled their homes to escape from the US-led coalition ‎airstrikes on their neighborhoods in Raqqa and its countryside.

The spokesperson of central command, CENTCOM, in the Pentagon ‎said the airstrikes were conducted to ‎provide air coverage for the allied forces, PKK-affiliated Syria Democratic Forces, on the ‎ground.‎

Separately, US-led coalition warplanes ‎killed by mistake 18 SDF fighters in an ‎airstrike carried out on Tuesday (March 11) in the city of Tabqa in al-Raqqa countryside.‎