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IS ambush kills 21 regime fighters in southern Syria: monitor
BEIRUT, Sept 11, 2018 (BSS/AFP) – An ambush by the Islamic State jihadist
group has killed 21 regime fighters in Syria’s southern province of Sweida, a
Britain-based war monitor said on Tuesday.
The attack occurred late Monday in the rural Tulul al-Safa area of the
province, some 100 kilometres (60 miles) southeast of Damascus, the Syrian
Observatory for Human Rights said.
BSS/AFP/FI/ 1706 hrs