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Syria-Lebanon-Iran
IS attack on bus kills 23 Syrian soldiers
2023-08-12
[An Nahar] At least 23 Syrian soldiers have been killed in the conflict-torn country's east in an attack on an army bus blamed on Islamic State
...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that they were al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're really very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear western pols talk they're not really Moslems....
 group jihadists, a monitor said Friday.

IS "members targeted a military bus" in Deir Ezzor province on Thursday, said the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, as remnants of the jihadist group escalate their attacks.

The attack killed "23 soldiers and maimed more than 10 others", some of whom at death's door, said the Britannia-based group which relies on a wide network of sources inside Syria.

The Observatory said "dozens of (other) soldiers" were missing.

Despite losing their last piece of territory in Syria in 2019, IS has maintained hideouts in the vast Syrian desert from which it has carried out ambushes and hit-and-run attacks.

Its members in recent weeks have increased their attacks in Syria's north and northeast.

Ten Syrian soldiers and pro-government fighters were killed earlier this week in an IS attack in the former jihadist stronghold of Raqa province, the Observatory said Tuesday.
Rudaw adds:
The gunnies reportedly ambushed an overnight bus belonging to the army in al-Mayadeen desert in the countryside of eastern Deir ez-Zor province.

The attack was the second of the jihadist group on the Syrian army within a week. On Tuesday, SOHR reported that ISIS killed 10 Syrian soldiers and maimed six in Raqqa.

According to data from SOHR, at least 188 Syrian soldiers, 157 civilians, 37 pro-Iran
...a theocratic Shiite state divided among the Medes, the Persians, and the (Arab) Elamites. Formerly a fairly civilized nation ruled by a Shah, it became a victim of Islamic revolution in 1979. The nation is today noted for spontaneously taking over other countries' embassies, maintaining whorehouses run by clergymen, involvement in international drug trafficking, and financing sock puppet militias to extend the regime's influence. The word Iran is a cognate form of Aryan. The abbreviation IRGC is the same idea as Stürmabteilung (or SA). The term Supreme Guide is a the modern version form of either Duce or Führer or maybe both. They hate Jews Zionists Jews. Their economy is based on the production of oil and vitriol...
militia members, and 20 ISIS fighters have been killed in festivities in the Syrian desert since the start of the year.

Civil war broke out in Syria in 2011 after the government’s brutal crackdown on protests and the security situation continues to be fragile ever since. The conflict then erupted into multiple fronts with the emergence of ISIS, constant fighting between Kurdish forces and The Sick Man of Europe Turkey
...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire...
and Ottoman Turkish-backed proxies, Israeli attacks on pro-Iran factions, and tit-for-tat attacks between the US and Iran. Russia has also backed the Syrian government, while about a thousand US troops are stationed in Syria to fight ISIS remnants.
The BBC has more on the location:
Sana news agency quoted a military source saying a "terrorist" group had attacked a military bus on Thursday in the steppe desert on the road from the T2 pumping station - which lies close to the Iraqi border south of the city of Deir al-Zour - leaving a number of army personnel dead and injured.

The T2 pumping station was an IS stronghold until its capture by the Syrian army in 2017.
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