ISIS executes new operation in Syria – details
234 claimed responsibility for an attack on a passenger bus in Syria’s northern Raqqa province that killed 11 soldiers and two civilians and wounded others.
According to a statement carried by Sputnik, “ISIS claims responsibility for the bus attack in northern Syria yesterday morning”.
The Syrian Ministry of Defense announced yesterday that “11 soldiers were killed and three others were wounded, in addition to the killing of two civilians in an attack on a civilian passenger bus on the al-Zamlah road in Jabal al Bishri in the countryside of Raqqa”, according to the Syrian news agency SANA.
A Syrian military source said: “At around 6:30 a.m. this morning (local time), a civilian named Bouleman was the target of a terrorist attack on the Raqqa-Homs road in the al-Jira area, which resulted in the deaths and injuries of military personnel and civilians”.
One of the deadliest terrorist attacks on buses occurred in December 2020, when 28 people were killed in an attack on a main highway in Syria’s eastern Deir ez-Zor province.
Media sources reported that the central prison in Raqqa was attacked at dawn yesterday, during which a number of prisoners, including ISIS members, managed to escape.
The sources added that “the SDF forces cordoned off the prison’s surroundings, and deployed patrols in the city with the importation of large military reinforcements”. They also carried out raids in the neighborhoods adjacent to the prison in search of fugitives.
On January 21, the SDF announced that it had thwarted an attempt by ISIS to free some 3,000 of its most dangerous leaders after seizing control of the group’s attack inside Geweran prison and its surroundings in Al-Hasakah.
It is worth mentioning that since the beginning of last year, there have been riots and disobedience by ISIS members detained in prisons controlled by US-backed SDF.
