IS Attack Kills 19 in Central Syria: Monitor
The surprise attack on Wednesday morning targeted regime positions in eastern Hama.
Islamic State group jihadists killed 19 Syrian regime personnel and allied militia fighters in the central province of Hama on Wednesday, a Britain-based war monitor said.
“Nineteen regime fighters and allied militia forces were killed in an IS attack, including 11 members of the Baqir Brigade,” a local Iran-backed militia, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said.
The war monitor said the “surprise attack” on Wednesday morning targeted regime positions in eastern Hama, the site of recent clashes between regime forces and jihadists.
The Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps and its militias in Deir ez-Zor, eastern Syria, are trying to avoid further losses from suspected Israeli airstrikes by redeploying, hiding inside residential neighborhoods in large cities and putting their strategic weapons in underground tunnels.