ISIS Claims Responsibility for Attack Against SDF in Syria’s Deir ez-Zor
DEIR EZ-ZOR, Syria (North Press) – The Islamic State Organization (ISIS) claimed responsibility, Saturday, for an attack with machineguns targeted a military headquarters of the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) in a town in Deir ez-Zor eastern countryside, east Syria.
The ISIS-run Amaq News Agency published a statement saying, “The organization’s militants had targeted, with machineguns, a military headquarters of the SDF in the town of Abu Hardub east of Deir ez-Zor.”
It added that the militants managed to injure a number of SDF fighters and flew.
On Saturday, a military source from the SDF in Abu Hardub told North Press that an SDF fighter was wounded by gunmen, who were riding a motorcycle, during his watch shift in front of his duty station in the town.
Although the SDF launches intensive security operations, the countryside of Deir ez-Zor has recently witnessed an increase in killing incidents carried out against SDF members, employees of the Autonomous Administration, tribal figures and civil residents.
The SDF keeps pursuing ISIS sleeper cells in Deir ez-Zor eastern countryside with the aim to maintain security and stability of the region.
A leader of the SDF survived, Friday evening, an assassination attempt in the town of Shuhail east of Deir ez-Zor, northeast Syria.
Since early August, ISIS has claimed nine attacks in the SDF-held areas, six of them in Deir ez-Zor.
On August 4, ISIS-run Amaq News Agency published a statement saying that the organization’s militants had beheaded a former SDF fighter in the village of Abraha, in the eastern countryside of Deir ez-Zor.
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, bringing an end to the so-called caliphate declared by the terrorist ISIS.