Bombings suspected to have been carried out by the "Islamic State" (ISIS) terrorist group killed at least eight people in northeastern Syria hours after a top US commander visited, security forces said Sunday, according to AFP.
Washington regards the Kurdish-led militia that controls most of the northeast as the most effective fighting force against IS in Syria and the head of US Central Command General Joseph Votel made a secret visit Saturday to confer with US military advisers working with them.
A CENTCOM spokesman declined to give details of the visit, saying only that Votel had visited several location inside Syria on the highest-ranking visit to the country since the 2011 outbreak of the civil war.