One group puts the number as high as 23. ISIS sleeper cells still carry out deadly attacks in parts of Syria despite the group’s defeat in 2019.
Gunmen have ambushed a bus carrying Syrian soldiers in the country’s east, killing at least 20 and wounding others, opposition activists said Friday.
The Thursday night attack was believed to have been carried out by members of , whose sleeper cells in parts of Syria still carry deadly attacks despite their defeat in 2019.
Those cells often use ambushes and hit-and-run attacks, Agence France-Presse points out.
The Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said 23 Syrian soldiers were killed and 10 were wounded in the attack on a desert road near the eastern town of Mayadeen in Deir el-Zour province, which borders Iraq.
AFP cites the observatory as saying, „Dozens of (other) soldiers“ were missing after the attack in which the jihadists surrounded the bus and started firing.
