DAMASCUS, Nov. 11 (Xinhua) -- At least three people were killed and five others wounded on Monday when three car bombs went off in Syria's northeastern Qamishli city, state news agency SANA reported.

Two cars went off in the al-Wihda street while the third one exploded near the al-Amin hotel in the central part of Qamishli city in the countryside of the northeastern province of Hasakah, said SANA.

SANA said the explosions were an "act of terrorism" with no party claiming responsibility yet.

The explosions come as the situation in Hasakah has been tense recently as Turkey launched a wide-scale offensive against the Kurdish forces who are in control of large areas in Hasakah.

Turkey has captured several areas in northern and northeastern Syria following the wide-scale offensive it had launched last month against the Kurdish militia of the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) and its broader umbrella of the Kurdish People's Protection Units, known as YPG, as Ankara deems these groups as terrorists and separatists.

A few deals have taken place since Oct. 9 under the Russian mediation, which led to halting the fights in some areas and the entry of Syrian troops to Kurdish-held areas on the Syrian-Turkish border to strip Turkey of its pretext to continue the offensive.

However, Turkey has recently charged that the Kurdish militia didn't withdraw from certain areas near the Turkish border as planned, which explains the renewed fighting between the Kurdish militia and the Kurdish-backed rebels. Enditem

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