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On May 6, ISIS terrorists attacked a position of the Syrian Arab Army (SAA) located right on the frontline with the US-occupied area of al-Tanf in Syria’s southeastern region.
The attack took place as SAA troops were preparing ambushes for ISIS cells who usually move in the 55-kilometer zone, a no-fly zone imposed by the US-led coalition around its main garrison in al-Tanf. The terrorists took the troop by surprise and managed to inflict some losses before fleeing.
According to the London-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, at least eight service members of the SAA were wounded in the attack.
Prior to the attack, warplanes of the Russian Aerospace Forces carried out a series of some 20 airstrikes on hideouts of ISIS cells near the town of al-Resafa in the southern Raqqa countryside and in the western desert of Deir Ezzor. These are areas are connected to al-Tanf.
In March, the SAA clashed with an unidentified force that sneaked out from al-Tanf 55-kilometer zone. Four soldiers and a personal of the force were killed in the clashes. The force was likely made up of ISIS terrorists.
Around 200 US troops and 300 fighters of the Revolutionary Commando Army, a proxy of the US-led coalition, are usually present in al-Tanf garrison, which was supposedly established to counter ISIS.
To this day, ISIS cells remain active within al-Tanf 55-kilometer zone. Syria believes that the terrorists have been buying supplies, including weapons, from US-backed fighters in al-Tanf. These supplies have been keeping the terrorist group’s insurgency in central Syria alive.
If Al Tanf is taken out, the ISIS attacks in central Syria will cease.
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