At least 10 members of a small militant faction linked to Daesh (ISIS) were killed Monday by suspected Israeli airstrikes in southern Syria, an activist group said.
The Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said the strikes hit the town of Sahm al-Jolan in the west of Daraa province.
The group said 10 fighters from the Jaish Khaled Bin Walid group were killed, along with two women believed to be the wives of fighters from the faction.
The strike hit a base belonging to the group, which has pledged allegiance to Daesh but was never formally incorporated into it.
The strikes on Sahm town in the western countryside of Daraa left senior commanders killed, according to activist Abu Abdullah al-Sham.
There was no immediate comment from the Israeli military on the report.
The Observatory said Monday’s strike came several months after 16 fighters from the group were killed in suspected Israeli airstrikes in the same area.
Jaish Khaled Bin al-Walid was formed in May 2016, and is an alliance of several militant groups, the largest of them the Yarmouk Martyrs Brigade, which was listed by Washington as a “terrorist” group.
In November 2016, Israel’s army said it had targeted members of the Yarmouk Martyrs Brigade after they fired at an Israeli soldier in the occupied Golan Heights.
The Observatory said Jaish Khaled Bin Walid is estimated to have some 1,200 fighters, and controls territory in western Deraa province, along the border with the occupied Golan Heights.
Two week ago, six rebel factions led by former al-Qaeda group launched assault on Jaish Khaled Ibn al-Walid near the Israeli-Occupied Golan Heights.
Tahrir al-Sham alliance backed by Ahrar al-Sham and four armed groups is seeking to defeat to break the siege imposed on the village of Hait as well to take village of Jellin and its camp in the western countryside.
Khaled Ibn al-Walid group, which pledged allegiance to the Islamic State three years ago, has attacked rebels bastions several times near Yarmouk basin. (With AFP)
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