Syria: Thirteen fighters loyal to regime killed in Islamic State ambush

At least 13 pro-regime fighters were killed in an ambush on Saturday Islamic state in eastern Syria, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said.

Despite his disaster at Syria In March 2019, with the fall of its “caliphate”, the IK continues to launch deadly attacks in the country, mainly in the vast Badiyah desert stretching from the central province of Homs to that of Deir Ezzor, on the border with Iraq, where they also operate. the jihadists.

The bomber struck shortly after noon in the western part of Deir Ezzor province, killing at least 12 people.13 members of a pro-regime local organization and injured others“, According to this NGO that has a huge network of resources in Syria.

The IC ambush took place at the time that pro-regime fighters were preparing to attack the sector.

According to Rami Abdel Rahman, director of the Observatory, this report “is the highest between the regime forces and the pro-regime organizations in the last five months”.

As of March 2019, 1,593 members of the regime forces or organizations loyal to it have been killed, as well as 153 non-Syrian pro-Iranian fighters, in various attacks, bombings or ambushes of the IK, according to the Observatory.

In addition, 1,081 IK members were killed in attacks, according to the same source.

Earlier on Saturday, the Observatory reported that three Iraqi refugees, including a woman, had been killed in the past two days by IS members in a camp in northeastern Syria.

Under the control of the semi-autonomous Kurdish administration, the al-Hall camp, which houses relatives of jihadist fighters, houses nearly 62,000 displaced people, most of them women and children.

The war in Syria, which broke out in 2011, has caused the death of about half a million people and the displacement of more than half of the country’s population before the war.