The Islamic State claims its first attack on the new government forces – Liberation

The Islamic State (IS) group claimed its first attack on the forces of the new Syrian authorities on Thursday, May 29 in the evening of the forces in the evening Since the fall of President Bashar al-Assadsaid an NGO and Site Intelligence Group. According to site, an organization specializing in the surveillance of Islamist websites, this is the first attack claimed by IS against the new Syrian government.

In a press release noted by site, The Islamic State group claims to have triggered a « Explosive device » Against a vehicle of the Syrian armed forces in the province of Sweida (South). The Syrian Observatory of Human Rights (OSDH) said that a man was killed and three members of the 70th Division of the Syrian army injured when their patrol was affected by a earthly mine distancing remote on Wednesday. The killed man accompanied the forces of the Syrian government in this desert area, according to this NGO.

The jihadist group, which had managed to control a large area in Syria and Iraq, was defeated in Syria in 2019 by Kurdish forces with the support of an international coalition. However, it maintains cells which continue to attack the forces led by Kurds in northeast Syria.

On Monday, the Syrian authorities announced that they had dismantled an IS cell, heavily armed, which was preparing to carry out attacks in a region close to Damascus.

About ten days earlier, the security forces said that they had arrested Aleppo, the second city in the country, several members of an IS cell. A member of the security forces and three jihadists had been killed in the operation.

US President Donald Trump, who met Syrian temporary president Ahmad al-Charaah on May 14 in Saudi Arabia, called him to « Help the United States preventing IS resurgence ».