Baladi News
25 soldiers of the Assad army and their allied militias have been killed in 2 days by the attacks of the Islamic State's militants in central Syria, a war monitor said early on Saturday.
Despite announcing their defeat in Baghouz last month by the US-backed Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), ISIS still has fighters holding out in the remote central desert.
The Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, said the attacks constituted Islamic State’s biggest military operation since losing Baghouz and involved assaults in several parts of central Syria.
The most intense attack was in the al-Koum area north of the ancient desert city of Palmyra, the Observatory said, where Islamic State militants killed 15 Syrian army and allied soldiers.
Islamic State said in a message on its Amaq news outlet on Friday that it had killed 20 Syrian soldiers and injured others in the al-Sukhna region between Palmyra and Deir aEzzor in an ambush and clashes.
Syrian state news outlets did not carry any reports of Islamic State attacks or of deaths among pro-government forces in clashes with the militant group.
Source: Reuters.