Six soldiers killed in an attack attributed to the Islamic State in eastern Syria
At least six Syrian soldiers were killed in an attack by the Islamic State jihadist group in a desert area in Deir Ezzor province in eastern Syria, according to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights.
The London-based organization with informants in the Arab country stated on its website that the attack took place in the Ber Abú al Hayaya region in the Al Mayadín desert, with no current claim to authorship.
On the other hand, he has stated that a bomb exploded on Thursday afternoon when a convoy of the United States-led international coalition passed near the village of Abriha, also in Deir Ezzor, although he added that it ended without victims. The coalition did not comment on what happened.
Six soldiers killed in an attack attributed to the Islamic State in eastern SyriaThe Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) announced on March 23, 2019 the capture of Baghuz and the fall of the so-called territorial caliphate of the Islamic State, which no longer controls any area in Syria and Iraq, where it was defeated in December 2017.