BEIRUT: Islamic State group fighters on Thursday killed 20 Syrian troopers and affiliated pro-government forces in two assaults on Damascus-controlled areas of the war-torn nation, a warfare monitor mentioned.
A complete of “16 regime forces and pro-government gunmen have been killed in an IS assault on a navy bus within the jap countryside of Homs province,” mentioned the Syrian Observatory for Human rights.
The useless included at the least 9 members of the Quds Brigade, a bunch comprising Palestinians fighters that has acquired assist from Damascus ally Moscow in recent times, in keeping with the monitor.
“4 regime forces have been killed in one other IS assault on a navy web site within the Albukamal countryside” in jap Syria that noticed two additionally taken hostage, the British-based monitor added.
In late March, IS militants “executed” eight Syria troopers following an ambush, the monitor had mentioned, additionally reporting 14 troops killed by the jihadists in prior days.
IS overran giant swathes of Syria and Iraq in 2014, proclaiming its “caliphate” and launching a reign of terror.
It was defeated territorially in Syria in 2019, however its remnants proceed to hold out lethal assaults, significantly within the huge Badia desert which runs from the outskirts of Damascus to the Iraqi border, primarily focusing on pro-government forces and Kurdish-led fighters.
Syria’s warfare has killed greater than half 1,000,000 individuals and displaced thousands and thousands extra because it broke out in March 2011 with Damascus’s brutal repression of anti-government protests.
A complete of “16 regime forces and pro-government gunmen have been killed in an IS assault on a navy bus within the jap countryside of Homs province,” mentioned the Syrian Observatory for Human rights.
The useless included at the least 9 members of the Quds Brigade, a bunch comprising Palestinians fighters that has acquired assist from Damascus ally Moscow in recent times, in keeping with the monitor.
“4 regime forces have been killed in one other IS assault on a navy web site within the Albukamal countryside” in jap Syria that noticed two additionally taken hostage, the British-based monitor added.
In late March, IS militants “executed” eight Syria troopers following an ambush, the monitor had mentioned, additionally reporting 14 troops killed by the jihadists in prior days.
IS overran giant swathes of Syria and Iraq in 2014, proclaiming its “caliphate” and launching a reign of terror.
It was defeated territorially in Syria in 2019, however its remnants proceed to hold out lethal assaults, significantly within the huge Badia desert which runs from the outskirts of Damascus to the Iraqi border, primarily focusing on pro-government forces and Kurdish-led fighters.
Syria’s warfare has killed greater than half 1,000,000 individuals and displaced thousands and thousands extra because it broke out in March 2011 with Damascus’s brutal repression of anti-government protests.
