63 wounded in Syria's Ayn al-Arab transported to Turkey

Sixty-three people wounded in jihadist attacks in a predominantly Kurdish town in northern Syria were transported Thursday to Turkey for treatment, Turkish Foreign Ministry spokesperson Tanju Bilgic said.

Two injured Syrians, including a child, died among those who received treatment in southern Turkey, Bilgic told reporters in Ankara.

Bilgic denied reports that Islamic State (IS) militants crossed into the Syrian town, Ayn al-Arab, also known as Kobane, through Turkey.

Just five months after being dislodged, the IS unleashed fresh attacks on Ayn al-Arab, killing at least 20 people and injuring many others, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights reported.

The attacks involved the use of car bombs, and Turkish media released footage of one car explosion in Ayn al-Arab across the Mursitpinar border crossing of Turkey.

IS militants attacked the southern districts of Ayn al-Arab, which witnessed one of the biggest confrontations against the IS late in 2014. Kurdish forces, backed by U.S. air strikes, expelled IS fighters in January after four months of clashes.

The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said the IS has now returned to Ayn al-Arab, battling Kurdish fighters of the People's Protection Units (YPG) there.

The latest attack on Ayn al-Arab apparently was in retaliation to a major offensive by Kurdish fighters on an IS stronghold in Syria's northern province of Raqqa, the de facto IS capital.

The IS on Wednesday dispatched reinforcement to northern Raqqa to bolster its stance before the YPG. Endit