(Zaman Al Wasl)- Daesh (ISIS) used at least 10 suicide bombers on Friday in a massive attack on Albu Kamal, in which they retook parts of the eastern Syrian town, a monitor said.
At least 25 government and allied fighters were killed in the offensive, the militants' largest in months, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said.
The regime army and its allies took complete control over Albu Kamal in November 2017.
Few villages along the eastern bank of Euphrates are still under Daesh control. All attacks by regime and Kurdish-led forces have been failed to uproot Daesh from its remaining pockets.
The regime army and its allies have waged an offensive across central and eastern Syria backed by Russian air and missile power.
In relevant development in eastern Syria, 3 American Army troops were killed by Daesh attack in northeastern Hasaka province as its allied YPG-led forces launch a major attack on ISIS stronghold near the Iraqi border, local activists said Friday.
The attack occurred near the town of al-Shaddadi on Wednesday when Daesh targeted a US armoured with guided rocket, activist Mohamed al-Kheder told Zaman al-Wasl.
ISIS also killed 8 Kurdish fighters near the al-Shaddadi, according to al-Kheder.
At least 13 US Army soldiers killed northeastern Syria in three months.
Daesh has resorted to guerrilla tactics since it abandoned its goal of holding territory and creating a self-sufficient caliphate that straddles Iraq and Syria.
The US-backedSyrian Democratic Forces (SDF) on Thursday seized three villages and seven farms in the southeastern countryside of Hasaka, taking advantage form a heavy aerial bombing by the International Coalition.
Since Sunday, clashes have been underway between the SDF and Daesh near the towns of al-Dshaisha and Tel Shayer.
At least 20 civilians have been killed by the U.S.-led airstrikes al-Dshaisha and tel Shayer during the week, activists said.
The U.S.-led airstrikes have killed more than 2000 civilians and have displaced thousands more, according to the United Nations.
The SDF, which the Kurdish YPG militia spearheads, has been the main partner of the U.S.-led coalition against Islamic State in Syria, helping drive the jihadists out of swathes of northern and eastern Syria last year.
In its turn, Iraq launched an air strike on a Daesh target south of Hasaka city Thursday, AP reported.
F-16 fighter jets destroyed a building where members of the ultra-hardline Sunni group's leadership were operating, the Iraqi army said in a statement.
Daesh, which once occupied a third of Iraq's territory, has been largely defeated in the country but still poses a threat along its border with Syria. Zaman Al Wasl, Agencies
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