Five members of forces who have pledged allegiance to the Syrian regime were killed on Friday in an attack by it Islamic State against a facility where the militants adjacent to Iran are also based, in the Palmyra region of central Syria, as reported by the NGO.
“Five pro-regime fighters were killed” in the Palmyra desert attack, said Rami Abdel Rahman, the head of the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, a Britain-based organization with a wide network of sources in war-torn Syria.
On January 9, IS jihadists killed at least 14 regime soldiers in the same area, in the eastern part of Homs province, according to the same source.
IS has again escalated its attacks against forces loyal to President Bashar al-Assadwith a base mainly in the desert, where its members folded as their “caliphate” collapsed at the end of 2019, and they lost vast areas they controlled in Syria.
After its meteoric rise in 2014, when it seized swaths of Syria and Iraq, the group has seen its self-proclaimed “caliphate” crumble under repeated attacks from multiple directions, both by Syrian forces backed by Russia and Iran, and and by Kurdish organizations with the support of the US international anti-jihadist coalition.
The defeat of IS in Syria was declared in 2019—and in Iraq in 2017—but the US-led international coalition has kept troops in the country, operating mainly against still-active jihadist cores.
The particularly complicated war in Syria, which broke out in 2011, triggered by the bloody repression of protests with a central demand for the democratization of the country, has claimed the lives of more than half a million people, turned millions more into internally displaced persons and refugees and fragmented its territory .
Source: News Beast
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