Central Syria: More Than 20 Service Members Killed In Ambush By Terror…
Late on August 10, a shuttle bus of the Syrian Arab Army (SAA) was ambushed by terrorists in the country’s central region, according to the Syrian Arab News Agency.
A military source told the official news agency that the bus was attacked by a “terrorist group” near the T2 pumping station in the southern countryside of Deir Ezzor. The source said that a number of service members were killed or wounded, without providing any details.
Meanwhile, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights reported that 23 service members of the SAA were killed and at least ten others were wounded in the attack. The London-based monitoring group said that the attack was carried out by ISIS cells.
Following the attack, the SAA and its allies deployed large reinforcements in the southern Deir Ezzor countryside. Fighter bombers of the Russian Aerospace Forces also carried out a series of airstrikes against hideouts of ISIS cells near the administrative border between Deir Ezzor and neighboring Raqqa in an initial response to the deadly attack.
ISIS has not claimed responsibility for the attack, yet. However, the terrorist group does not always announce its attacks in Syria’s central region.
Last month, ISIS cells ambushed an oil shipment that was heading from Raqqa to Homs. The shipment came under attack to the northeast of al-Saan town on the Salamiyah-Raqqa road in the eastern Hama countryside. Five soldiers and two drivers were killed in the ambush. Six tankers were also destroyed. The group is still silent on the attack.
The surge in ISIS attacks in central Syria came following Russia and Syrian claims of a plot by the United States-led coalition to train terrorists at al-Tanf garrison in order to destabilize the strategic region.
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