(Zaman Al Wasl)- Militant Daesh group on Thursday has killed two US-backed fighters in eastern Deir Ezzor province amid hike in snap attacks against Kurdish forces and Syrian regime proxies.
According to Zaman al-Wasl source, Daesh militants has attacked a checkpoint for the Syrian Democratic Forces in al-Baghouz, once a key stronghold for the radical group near the Iraqi border.
ISIS has been largely defeated in the country but has continued to carry out ambushes, assassinations and bombings there and still poses a threat along the Syria-Iraq border.
Also on Thursday, an attack by Daesh in the Syrian desert has 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.
ISIS has resorted to guerrilla tactics since it abandoned its goal of holding territory and creating a self-declared caliphate straddling Iraq and Syria.
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 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)
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