While US and Israeli movements have engaged the Syrian army and resistance forces, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights now reports that the ISIL terrorist group has intensified its attacks in Syria; The attacks are said to have killed a number of Syrian soldiers in recent weeks.
Faraan: The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights claimed that nine Syrian forces were killed by ISIL in eastern Syria yesterday, the latest in a series of ISIL attacks. According to the report, these 9 people are among the 30 Syrian soldiers who were killed in ISIL attacks this week alone. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights also reported that seven terrorists were killed in clashes between government forces and the Islamic State terrorist group in a remote area of eastern Raqqa province on Wednesday.
The clash came after ISIS ambushed a bus carrying Syrian army troops on a desert road connecting the cities of Raqqa and Homs. The Syrian source continued: At least 15 Syrian soldiers were killed in two ISIL attacks this year. According to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, four other soldiers were killed in an ISIL ambush Wednesday near a military airport east of the capital, Damascus. Two other Syrian army soldiers were also killed earlier this week in the Raqqa area.
Although official sources in Syria have not yet responded to or confirmed these reports, according to various media reports, the terrorist group’s activities in Iraq and Syria have increased significantly in recent months. Despite the group’s defeat in 2017, remains of ISIL elements are still active in some remote areas and deserts of Syria and Iraq, and from time to time, they carry out terrorist and insecure acts in these areas.
Syria has been witnessing a crisis and conflict since 2011 with the support and intervention of the United States, the West and some Arab countries in the region. The crisis has left nearly half a million dead, causing widespread destruction of infrastructure and manufacturing sectors and the displacement of millions of Syrians. ISIL movements in the northern and eastern provinces of Iraq have also increased in recent months. Experts believe that the recent movements of the takfiri terrorist group ISIL have intensified since the United States and Israel in the region, with extensive marginalization, engaged the resistance groups that destroyed the terrorist war machine four years ago.
Currently, Turkish and US military intervention in northern Syria has left these areas out of the control of the Syrian army and government and has become a hotbed of terrorists, and occasional Israeli attacks on Syrian army bases and resistance groups, which together, has paved the way for new movements by ISIS and other extremist groups in Syria.
