ISIS attacks kill at least 30 pro-government forces in Syria

ISIS attacks killed at least 30 pro-government forces and soldiers in the Syrian desert, a war monitor said Wednesday, in one of the deadliest such assaults this year.

The Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said there had been “30 dead, four of them soldiers and 26 from the National Defense Forces, in simultaneous attacks carried out by ISIS on Wednesday morning on checkpoints and military positions” in the Syrian desert.

The attacks took place in locations between Raqqa, Homs and Deir Ezzor, added the Observatory, which has a vast network of sources on the ground.

ISIS proclaimed a “caliphate” in June 2014 across swathes of Syria and Iraq and launched a reign of terror.

It should be mentioned that the group was defeated territorially in Syria in 2019 but its remnants continue to carry out deadly hit-and-run attacks and ambushes, particularly from desert hideouts.