The car explosion struck a town south of the city of Tal Abyad, which was captured last month by Turkish troops The Russian air strikes took place in Idlib province, fatalities included 3 children ANKARA: A car bomb in northern Syria killed at least eight civilians and wounded 20 others Sunday in a town near the border with Turkey, Turkey"s Defense Ministry said. Meanwhile, air strikes by Syrian regime ally Russia on Sunday killed seven civilians, including three children, in an anti-government bastion in northwestern Syria The car explosion struck a town south of the city of Tal Abyad, the ministry said. The city was captured last month by Turkish troops and Turkey-backed opposition forces from Kurdish-led fighters. The ministry blamed Syrian Kurdish fighters for the attack, accusing them of "massacring innocent civilians." The attack came more than a week after a similar car bomb attack in central Tal Abyad killed 13 people. Turkey invaded northeast Syria last month to push out Syrian Kurdish fighters near the border. The military offensive has since displaced around 200,000 people. Ankara considers the Kurdish-led forces to be terrorists because of their links to Kurdish militants fighting inside Turkey. The Kurdish groups have called in Syrian government forces to halt Turkey"s advance. Despite a shaky truce brokered by Russia, Syrian government forces have since clashed with Turkish troops and Turkey-backed opposition fighters. Syrian government troops fought for a second day with Turkish-led forces in an area between the towns of Tal-Tamr and Ras al-Ayn, according to a war monitor, Syria"s state media and activists. At least four Syrian government soldiers were killed in the fighting Saturday. A Turkish drone struck a village north of Tal-Tamr Sunday, Syria state-run Al-Ikhbariya TV said. The Britain-based Syrian Observatory reported intense clashes not far from Russian patrols. Russia mediated a cease-fire whereby Syrian government forces deployed along parts of the border but also left Turkey in control of a stretch of land inside Syria. In the airstrikes, eight others were wounded and some of them are in a "critical" condition, said Rami Abdel Rahman, the head of the Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights war monitor. The air strikes - the third wave by Russian aircraft in eight days on northwestern Syria - struck the village of Kafr Ruma in the jihadist-run enclave of Idlib, the Observatory said. The Idlib region, which is home to some three million people including many displaced by Syria"s eight-year civil war, is controlled by the country"s former Al-Qaeda affiliate. Syrian President Bashar al-Assad"s forces launched a blistering military campaign against Idlib in April, killing around 1,000 civilians and displacing more than 400,000 people from their homes. A ceasefire announced by Russia has largely held since late August, although the Observatory says dozens of civilians have been killed in sporadic bombardment since then.