A army automobile within the Badia space got here underneath a rocket assault adopted by artillery shelling by ISIL fighters: SANA.
5 Syrian troopers have been killed and 20 injured in a rocket assault on a army transport bus within the east of the nation.
Sunday’s assault befell at roughly 7pm (17:00 GMT), Syrian state media reported on Monday, including {that a} army automobile within the Badia space got here underneath a rocket assault adopted by artillery shelling by ISIL (ISIS) fighters.
ISIL, which declared a caliphate straddling components of Syria and Iraq in 2014, has misplaced all of the territory that was underneath its management in 2019.
Nonetheless, the group continues to wage a low-level combat in each nations, launching frequent hit-and-run raids from desert hideouts on both aspect of the border with Iraq.
In mid-December, Kurdish forces within the north of the nation mentioned, backed by the US army, they killed 5 suspected fighters in an airborne operation within the Deir Az Zor province.
The Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), a US-backed alliance of Kurdish and Arab fighters, which controls the semi-autonomous Kurdish area of northeastern Syria, performed the raid close to the village of al-Busaira.