5 Syrian soldiers killed, 20 injured in ISIS attack on bus in Syria’s al-Badia region

HOMS, Jan. 03 (YPA) – At least five Syrian army personnel were killed  and 20 others were injured  on as a military bus was subjected to a missile attack launched by Daesh “ISIS” terrorist organization, east of the third station in the Syrian al-Badia region, Syrian Arab News Agency  (SANA) reported, citing a military source.

The military sources explained that  “at about 07:00 p.m. on Sunday, a military bus was subjected to a terrorist missile attack in the area, 50 km east of the third station in the Syrian al-Badia region by a group of Daesh “ISIS” terrorist organization.”

“The attack was followed by bursts of fire of 23 mm caliber cannon as five army personnel were martyred and twenty others were wounded,” the source added.

These attacks are repeatedly launched by terrorist groups on the buses on Deir Ezzor- Palmyra road as they launch such attacks from the area which is under the control of the US occupation forces in al-Tanf area, which provides protection and support for these terrorist organizations.

Over the past months, several media reports talked about transferring hundreds of ISIS terrorists by the US occupation forces from Iraq sometimes and from the prisons they control with the QSD militia in Hasaka at other times to al-Tanf area to train and arm them in preparation for attacking the Syrian Arab Army personnel and the vital facilities and the residential compounds in the Syrian al-Badia region.

E.M