The blast, which detonated next to a truck carrying agricultural workers, underscored the challenges faced by the country’s interim president.

DAMASCUS (Reuters) -A car bomb killed at least 20 people in the northern Syrian city of Manbij on Monday, the Syrian presidency said, marking the second attack there in three days and the country's deadliest since Bashar al-Assad was toppled from power in December.

Another car bomb exploded on the outskirts of a city in northern Syria on Monday, killing at least 20 people and leaving over a dozen wounded, officials and emergency responders said. At least 18 women were killed in the bombing,

Syria's new government will hold the perpetrators of a "terror attack" that killed at least 20 people in the northern city of Manbij accountable, the Syrian presidency's office said on Monday.