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IS attacks kill 27 Syria pro-regime fighters in 48 hours: Report

The Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said the dead included four senior Syrian army officer.

April 20, 2019 / 12:16 PM IST
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Attacks by Islamic State group fighters deep in the Syrian Desert killed 27 Damascus troops and allied fighters over the past 48 hours, a monitoring group said on April 20. The Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said the dead included four senior Syrian army officer.

The Amaq propaganda arm of IS, which lost the last vestige of its "caliphate" to Kurdish-led forces in eastern Syria last month but retains desert and mountain hideouts in both Syria and Iraq, said its fighters carried out the operation.
PTI
first published: Apr 20, 2019 12:00 pm

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