Friday, May 03, 2024

ISIS Carries Out Deadly Attacks on Pro-government Forces in East Syria

An aerial picture shows farmers harvesting strawberries in a field in Bidama village in Syria's opposition-held northwestern Idlib province on April 26, 2024. 
(Photo by Aaref WATAD / AFP)

Asharq Al Awsat
3 May 2024 
AD ـ 24 Shawwal 1445 AH


Suspected members of ISIS attacked three posts for Syrian government forces and pro-government gunmen early Friday killing at least 13, an opposition war monitor and pro-government media reported.

The attack wounded others who were taken to hospitals in the central province of Homs, according to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights. It said 15 were killed in the attacks on three posts near the central town of Sukhna and blamed ISIS.
The conflicting casualty counts could not immediately be reconciled.
Pro-government media outlets said 13 soldiers and pro-government gunmen were killed in the attacks and that ISIS gunmen were behind it. They gave no further details.

Local sources later said that the death toll rose to 17.

There was no immediate claim of responsibility for the attacks but the area was once a stronghold of the extremist group that was officially defeated in Syria in March 2019.
However, ISIS sleeper cells have been blamed for deadly attacks against both Syrian government forces and against members of the US-backed and Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces in eastern Syria.

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