Daesh attacks kill 27 Syria pro-regime fighters in 48 hours: Monitor - GulfToday

Daesh attacks kill 27 Syria pro-regime fighters in 48 hours: Monitor

  • 20 Apr 2019

Syrian pro-govt members hold a position in the eastern city of Deir Ezzor, Syria. File photo/ AFP

Attacks by Daesh fighters deep in the Syrian Desert killed 27 Damascus troops and allied fighters over the past 48 hours, a monitoring group said on Saturday.

The Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said the dead included four senior Syrian army officers.

The Amaq propaganda arm of Daesh, which lost the last vestige of its “caliphate” to Kurdish-led forces in eastern Syria last month but retains desert and mountain hideouts in both Syria and Iraq, said its fighters carried out the operation.

Agence France-Presse

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