Islamic State group claims first attack on Syrian government forces since Assad's fall

The Islamic State radical has claimed work for 2 attacks successful confederate Syria

BEIRUT -- The Islamic State group has claimed work for 2 attacks successful confederate Syria, including 1 connected authorities forces that an absorption warfare show described arsenic the archetypal connected the Syrian service to beryllium adopted by the extremists since the autumn of Bashar Assad.

In 2 abstracted statements issued precocious Thursday, IS said that successful the archetypal attack, a weaponry was detonated targeting a “vehicle of the apostate regime,” leaving 7 soldiers dormant oregon wounded. It said the onslaught occurred “last Thursday,” oregon May 22, successful the al-Safa country successful the godforsaken of the confederate state of Sweida.

IS said that the 2nd onslaught occurred this week successful a adjacent country during which a weaponry targeted members of the U.S.-backed Free Syrian Army, claiming that it killed 1 combatant and wounded three.

There was nary remark from the authorities connected the assertion of the onslaught and a spokesperson for the Free Syrian Army didn't instantly respond to a petition for remark by The Associated Press.

The Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said that the onslaught connected authorities forces killed 1 civilian and wounded 3 soldiers, describing it arsenic the archetypal specified onslaught to beryllium claimed by IS against Syrian forces since the autumn of the 54-year Assad family's rule successful December.

IS, which erstwhile controlled ample parts of Syria and Iraq, is opposed to the caller authorization successful Damascus led by President Ahmad al-Sharaa, who was erstwhile the caput of al-Qaida’s branch successful Syria and fought battles against IS.

Over the past respective months, IS has claimed work for attacks against the U.S.-backed and Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces successful the northeast.

IS was defeated successful Syria successful March 2019 erstwhile SDF fighters captured the past sliver of onshore that the extremists controlled. Since then, its sleeper cells person carried retired deadly attacks, chiefly successful eastbound and northeast Syria.

In January, authorities media reported that quality officials successful Syria’s post-Assad authorities thwarted a program by IS to acceptable disconnected a weaponry astatine a Shiite Muslim shrine southbound of Damascus.

Al-Sharaa met with U.S. President Donald Trump successful Saudi Arabia earlier this period during which the American person said that Washington would enactment connected lifting crippling economical sanctions imposed connected Damascus since the days of Assad.

White House property caput Karoline Leavitt said successful a connection aft the gathering that Trump urged al-Sharaa to diplomatically admit Israel, “tell each overseas terrorists to permission Syria” and assistance the U.S. halt immoderate resurgence of the Islamic State group.

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