UK-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said on Friday that 26 Syrian troops were killed and 10 were injured in an attack on a desert road near the eastern town of Mayadin in Deir Ezzor province, which borders Iraq. Acording to others Syrian activist organizations, 20 soldiers were killed and several others injured. ISIL immediately claimed responsibility for the deadly attack. The observatory said that "dozens of other soldiers" were missing following the bloodiest attack by ISIL so far this year, in which armed men encircled the bus and began shooting. The Syrian army and government did not immediately react. According to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (SOHR), ISIS targets civilians, Kurdish-led forces, government soldiers, and allied pro-Iranian militants. ISIS's devastating attack comes just days after the 78th anniversary of Syrian Army Day, the day President Bashar al-Assad, head of the Syrian army, commended his brave troops for defeating extr...
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