ISIS claims attacks on Syria’s SDF, Iraqi army
DEIR EZ-ZOR, Syria (North Press) – Islamic State (ISIS), through close outlets, claimed responsibility for two attacks against the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) in Syria and against the Iraqi Army in Iraq.
The ISIS-run Amaq news agency, in a statement, said that the group’s militants targeted with machineguns a checkpoint of the SDF near the town of al-Busayrah in the eastern countryside of Deir z-Zor, eastern Syria.
Amaq added that the attack resulted in the killing of an SDF fighter and the wounding of another.
A military source from the SDF, in an exclusive statement to North Press, confirmed the attack, in which a fighter of the SDF was killed and another was wounded.
The source added that the wounded fighter was in “critical condition,” and he was transferred to a field hospital in the town.
ISIS lost its final stronghold in Syria in March 2019. The SDF, with the support of the US-led Global Coalition, defeated ISIS after fierce battles in the town of Baghouz in the eastern countryside of Deir ez-Zor, eastern Syria, bringing an end to the so-called caliphate declared by the terrorist ISIS.
After Baghouz, thousands of ISIS militants were transferred to prisons, while their families were transferred to Hawl and Roj camps in the Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria (AANES)-held areas.
In a separate statement, Amaq said that the ISIS militants targeted, with different types of weapons, a barrack of the Iraqi Army in a village in Rutba, wounding a soldier and causing damage to the barrack.
Lately, ISIS’ activities and risk have record a significant increase despite the operations carried out by the US-led Global Coalition and its partner forces to defeat the group in both countries.