An attack by the Daesh group in the Syrian desert killed 20 regime and allied fighters, a monitoring group and activists said Thursday.
The fighters died in an attack on their vehicle between Al Sukhna and Al Shula in the area straddling Homs and Deir Ezzor provinces, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said.
At least 27 regime and allied fighters were killed in an attack by the militant group in the same desert area a month ago.
Observers have warned that border closures and mobilization of security resources due to the coronavirus pandemic could give rise to a surge in Daesh attacks.
The militant group, which once administered a proto-state the size of Great Britain, no longer has fixed positions, but it still has hundreds of fighters hunkered down in desert hideouts.
Daesh has been largely defeated in the country but has continued to carry out ambushes, assassinations and bombings there and still poses a threat along its border with Syria
Daesh has also carried out deadly attacks in Iraq in recent weeks.
On Saturday, two US-backed fighters and a displaced child were killed by an improvised explosive device planted by Daesh in Deir Ezzor, local activists said.
The radical group has killed thousands of people since 2014. At least 5600 bodies were exhumed from Daesh mass graves in eastern Syria, according to local rights groups.
(Editing by Mohamed Hamdan)
Zaman Al Wasl
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