13 Syrian soldiers dead in attack on military bus, state media says

By AFP 6 March 2022, 6:56 pm

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Illustrative: Syrian government soldiers ride in the back of a truck with national flags as they deploy for the first time in the eastern countryside of the city of Qamishli in the northeastern Hasakah province on November 5, 2019. (Delil SOULEIMAN / AFP)

Thirteen soldiers die in an attack on a military bus in the Syrian desert, state news agency SANA says, with a war monitor blaming the Islamic State group.

A “terrorist attack” with multiple weapons this afternoon targeted the bus, “killing 13, including officers, and wounding 18 others,” SANA reports.

The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, a British-based war monitor with an extensive network of sources across the country, says an Islamic State group cell carried out the attack in the Palmyra desert.