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Late on August 10, a shuttle bus of the Syrian Arab Army (SAA) was ambushed by terrorists in the country’s central region, according to the Syrian Arab News Agency.
A military source told the official news agency that the bus was attacked by a “terrorist group” near the T2 pumping station in the southern countryside of Deir Ezzor. The source said that a number of service members were killed or wounded, without providing any details.
Meanwhile, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights reported that 23 service members of the SAA were killed and at least ten others were wounded in the attack. The London-based monitoring group said that the attack was carried out by ISIS cells.
Following the attack, the SAA and its allies deployed large reinforcements in the southern Deir Ezzor countryside. Fighter bombers of the Russian Aerospace Forces also carried out a series of airstrikes against hideouts of ISIS cells near the administrative border between Deir Ezzor and neighboring Raqqa in an initial response to the deadly attack.
ISIS has not claimed responsibility for the attack, yet. However, the terrorist group does not always announce its attacks in Syria’s central region.
Last month, ISIS cells ambushed an oil shipment that was heading from Raqqa to Homs. The shipment came under attack to the northeast of al-Saan town on the Salamiyah-Raqqa road in the eastern Hama countryside. Five soldiers and two drivers were killed in the ambush. Six tankers were also destroyed. The group is still silent on the attack.
The surge in ISIS attacks in central Syria came following Russia and Syrian claims of a plot by the United States-led coalition to train terrorists at al-Tanf garrison in order to destabilize the strategic region.
killed by yankees, nato, illegal entity israhell !! terrorists are trained, armed supported and get aircover from them. kill all those invadors and the terrorist problem is gone !!!
when they refer to terrorists, what they really mean is israel and america’s proxy army.
for all we know these types of attacks are done by special forces or some kind of black ops team.
early this week, i saw a short article on southfront attempting to explain america’s recent naval deployment to the red sea. unfortunately, the author’s analysis was incomplete. so i wrote a 4k-word article on the “real” reason for this deployment. i invite those interested to have a read and share your thoughts in a civilized manner. it’s on my blog “islam4life(dot)info”.
maybe it’s time the saa moved it’s troops armed and in tactical vehicles instead of shuttling them around like schoolchildren in unarmored busses.
us and natostan take from very refugee camps they create. 911 was a start of alot of this.