Observation organization claims 26 soldiers have died and Syrian military vehicles have been attacked by terrorist attacks on cars | Syria | military vehicles
According to the Syrian Human Rights Watch, headquartered in London, a military vehicle carrying Syrian soldiers was ambushed by armed militants in eastern Syria on the 11th, resulting in at least 26 deaths and 11 injuries. The attackers are believed to be members of the extremist organization ISIS.
The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights stated that the attack occurred on the evening of the 10th on a desert road in the eastern Maiadin region of Deir Zor province, with some of the injured severely injured.
Syrian official media, Syrian Arab News Agency, quoted military personnel as saying that Syrian military personnel have been attacked by terrorists, resulting in multiple deaths and injuries. The official did not provide more detailed information.
Syria's Deir Zor Province is adjacent to Iraq. The Islamic State began its siege of Iraq in the summer of 2014, and in June of the same year, it announced the establishment of the so-called "Caliphate" spanning Iraq and Syria in Mosul, northern Iraq, designating the northern Syrian city of Raqqa as the "capital".
Islamic State began to decline gradually in 2016 and abandoned Raqqa in mid-2017. In December 2017, the Iraqi government announced a victory against ISIS. In March 2019, ISIS lost its last important stronghold in Syria. Afterwards, the remaining forces of the organization mainly fled and rebelled in the two countries of Iraq and Syria.
In February of this year, a group of Islamic State militants launched an attack on civilians digging truffles in the southwestern desert city of Suhna in central Syria's Homs province, resulting in 53 deaths.
On the 3rd of this month, the Islamic State acknowledged the death of its fourth highest leader, Abu Hussein Hussein al Qureshi, in the conflict in northwestern Syria and announced its successor. Rami Abdul Rahman, head of the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, said that ISIS has recently launched more frequent deadly attacks.