The terrorist group IS is said to have killed ten Syrian government soldiers and fighters for government-allied troops in an attack on Monday evening.
“IS attacked regime positions and roadblocks” and “set fire to military vehicles and buildings,” the London-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (SOHR) said.
The attack was carried out in the former jihadist stronghold of Raqqa province in northern Syria, according to SOHR, which relies on a network of sources in Syria.
Six soldiers were also injured in Monday night’s attack, some seriously, according to SOHR.
Although IS was driven from the last territory it controlled in Syria four years ago, the group has managed to maintain several hideouts in the vast Syrian desert, enabling ambushes and continued attacks.
The city of Raqqa was the stronghold of IS’s brutal “caliphate” until the group was driven out after bloody battles in 2017. In March 2019, Kurdish-led forces backed by the United States finally succeeded in driving IS from the last territory the group held in Syria.