The Observatory said the nine were among 30 Syrian soldiers killed in ISIS attacks this week alone.
“Violent confrontations” since Wednesday between government forces and ISIS in a remote area of Raqqa governorate in the east of the country have also led to the death of 7 militants, according to the observatory.
The confrontations followed an ambush claimed by ISIS and targeting a bus carrying fighters from the Syrian army and allied militias on the desert road linking the cities of Raqqa and Homs.
The Monday attack, the deadliest this year, left at least 15 Syrian army forces dead, according to the observatory.
The observatory also added that 4 other soldiers were killed, on Wednesday, in an ambush set up by ISIS near the Dumayr military airport, east of the capital, Damascus, and that two other soldiers were killed earlier this week in the Raqqa area.
The “caliphate” declared by the extremist organization in Syria and Iraq in 2014, collapsed in March 2019 after it was defeated in Syria by the Syrian Democratic Forces and its Kurdish fighters, but cells of the extremist organization are scattered in the desert and difficult mountainous places, continuing to launch attacks on government and Kurdish forces.
Since 2011, Syria has been witnessing a bloody conflict that has killed nearly half a million people, caused massive destruction to infrastructure and productive sectors, and led to the displacement and displacement of millions of people inside and outside the country.
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