BEIRUT – The Islamic State workforce has claimed responsibility for an ambush in japanese Syria that killed at least 20 government soldiers and wounded others, caution that such assaults will proceed.
IS sleeper cells nonetheless raise fatal assaults regardless of their defeat in Syria in 2019. The workforce as soon as managed massive portions of Syria and Iraq the place they declared a caliphate in 2014.
The Friday night time observation stated IS opponents ambushed two military vehicles within the japanese province of Deir el-Zour the use of other forms of guns. IS claimed that 40 participants of the Syrian army have been killed and 10 have been wounded.
Syrian opposition activists stated the Thursday night time attack on a bus wearing squaddies close to town of Mayadeen killed no less than 20 squaddies and wounded others. State media stated a number of squaddies have been killed and wounded, with out giving a breakdown.
“Let the whole world know that our allegiance to our leaders is practiced with deeds and not words and our Jihad is going on until Doomsday,” IS stated.
Last week, IS introduced the death in Syria of its little-known leader, Abu al-Hussein al-Husseini al-Qurayshi — who had headed the extremist group since (*20*) — and named his successor. He was once the fourth chief to be killed since its founder, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, was once killed in 2019 by way of U.S. troops in northwest Syria.