(Zaman Al Wasl)- Three people, two brothers and a woman, were killed in an ambush by ISIS (Daesh) group in eastern Deir Ezzor province, activists said Sunday.
The first brother was operating in the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) and the second was a fighter in Usoud al-Sharqiya, a paramilitary group affiliated to the Syrian army.
Syrian regime forces and allied fighters have come under a series of ambushes, assassinations and bombings in the Syrian desert in the past two months, mostly carried out by the Islamic State group.
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.
Also in Deir Ezzor, the U.S.-led coalition backed by the SDF made an airdrop in the town of al-Basirah, tracking Daesh sleeper cells, local activists said Sunday.
At least ten suspected Daesh fighters were arrested in the raid.
The U.S. forces have made dozens of airdrops in the former ISIS-held territory to eliminate Daesh sleeper cells.
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.
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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