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 stated.
A complete of “16 regime forces and pro-government gunmen have been killed in an IS assault on a army bus within the japanese countryside of Homs province,” stated the Syrian Observatory for Human rights.
The lifeless included at the very least 9 members of the Quds Brigade, a bunch comprising Palestinians fighters that has obtained help from Damascus ally Moscow in recent times, in response to the monitor.
“4 regime forces have been killed in one other IS assault on a army website within the Albukamal countryside” in japanese 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 stated, additionally reporting 14 troops killed by the jihadists in prior days.
IS overran massive 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 one million folks and displaced tens of millions 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 army bus within the japanese countryside of Homs province,” stated the Syrian Observatory for Human rights.
The lifeless included at the very least 9 members of the Quds Brigade, a bunch comprising Palestinians fighters that has obtained help from Damascus ally Moscow in recent times, in response to the monitor.
“4 regime forces have been killed in one other IS assault on a army website within the Albukamal countryside” in japanese 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 stated, additionally reporting 14 troops killed by the jihadists in prior days.
IS overran massive 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 one million folks and displaced tens of millions extra because it broke out in March 2011 with Damascus’s brutal repression of anti-government protests.
