Syria: 53 Killed In Ambush Blamed On ISIS
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18 February, 2023 09:26 am IST
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At least 53 people were killed in an ambush in central Syria on Friday blamed on ISIS. The state media reported that the deadliest attack by the jihadists in more than a year.
"Fifty-three citizens who were truffle hunting were killed during an attack by the terrorists of ISIS to the southwest of the town of Al-Sokhna" in the desert east of Homs, state television said.
The director of Palmyra hospital, Walid Audi, said those killed were 46 civilians and seven soldiers. Audi told pro-government radio station Sham FM that their bodies had "been brought to the hospital after the ambush" that targeted dozens.
Separately on Friday, the US Central Command said four American military personnel were injured in a blast during a raid that killed a senior ISIS leader in Syria.
The ISIS leader, identified as Hamza al-Homsi, was killed, while the US troops and a working dog were being treated at an American medical facility in Iraq, it added.
Many people, including women and children, have been targeted in recent years while truffle hunting in central, northeastern and eastern areas of Syria.
Sixteen people, mostly civilians, were killed on Saturday in a similar attack targeting foragers in the same area, said the Observatory, which relies on a wide network of sources on the ground in Syria.
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