On Wednesday, Isis attacked a bus in Syria killing over 37 people. This has been one of the largest attacks in Syria since the fall of the caliphate in 2019. Anika Khan reports.
- A dozen of Syrian regime soldiers and militiamen were returning from their posts in Deir Ez-Zor province, a Syrian border region.
- The Syrian Observatory for Human rights (SOHR) reported that a terrorist attack on the bus on the main highway killed many civilians including soldiers from Bashar al- Assad’s elite Fourth Brigade.
- According to the official reports, the Jihadists set up a checkpoint to stop the bus near the village of Shula and detonate bombs before opening fire on the civilians and soldiers on board. Two buses managed to escape the scene.
- Observatory head, Rami Abdel said that it was “one of the deadliest attacks since the fall of the Isis (self-proclaimed) caliphate”.
- Back in 2014, when Syria was torn apart by civil war, Isis appointed their caliphate and established control over 8 million Syrians and Iraqis.
- By 2019, years of civil war and attacks from the US and other regional allies caused Isis to lose control over all their territories.
- Ever since then, Jihadists hiding in caves and small bases have been conducting ambushes and hit-and-run attacks.
- Recently there has been a surge in violence in Syria once again.
- Local tribes reported executions carried out by regime-allied Iranian militias of nomads.
Syria has been plunged into a civil war for over a decade now, drawing foreign powers like the USA and Russia to send military reinforcements to their lands. The war has caused the lives of over 500,000 people and has caused more than half of the population of Syria to lose their homes. It seems that the rest of the world has turned a blind eye to what is happening in Syria.
