(Zaman Al Wasl)- At least 12 regime soldiers were killed and wounded when a group of ISIS suicide bombers blew themselves up in a military checkpoint in the desert town of Sukhna east of Homs province, the state news agency SANA said on Monday.
The attack came day after 17 troops killed in similar attack on Ma’danan town in the Syrian desert, also known as al-Badiya, where the radical group still control a territory.
In relevant development, source told Zaman al-Wasl that more than 500 militiamen fighting under The Tiger Units were killed and wounded in a month of fighting with ISIS in Deir Ezzor province.
More than 119,000 pro-government forces have been killed, including 62,000 Syrian troops, tens of thousands of loyalist militiamen, and 1,556 fighters from Hezbollah, according to a new estimate by the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights.
Another 59,000 fighters from rebel groups, Islamist factions, and the U.S.-backed Syrian Democratic Forces were also killed.
Militant groups suffered the biggest blow, with the more than 62,200 deaths representing an increase of 4,000 since the Observatory published its last toll in July.
Overall during the past four months, nearly 12,000 people died across the country – including 3,001 civilians.
Syria’s grinding war has killed over 340,000 people since it broke out in 2011, including more than 100,000 civilians, according to the Observatory.
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