ISIS claims attack on SDF vehicle in Syria’s Raqqa

RAQQA, Syria (North Press) – Islamic State (ISIS), through close outlets, claimed on Thursday responsibility for targeting a military vehicle of the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) in the northern countryside of Raqqa, northern Syria.

ISIS-run Amaq news agency said in a statement that the group’s militants targeted, with an IED, an SDF military vehicle on a route, linking between the city of Raqqa and the village of Hazima in the northern countryside.

Amaq claimed that the IED explosion killed and wounded four SDF fighters.

Activists circulated the news that two SDF fighters lost their lives and three others were wounded in the attack.

The group is intensifying its operations against SDF in the countryside of Deir ez-Zor, Raqqa, and Hasakah, using machineguns and planting IEDs.

On April 25, ISIS claimed responsibility for targeting a checkpoint of the SDF in a town east of Deir ez-Zor Governorate, eastern Syria.

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.

Reporting by Ahmad Othman