BEIRUT (Reuters) – Six members of the Kurdish-led security forces were killed on Monday in an Islamic State suicide attack on a security forces post in the Syrian city of Raqqa, Mazloum Abdi, commander of the Syrian Democratic Forces, said on Twitter . .
Farhad Shami, head of the US-backed Syrian Democratic Forces media center, said one suicide bomber was killed and another arrested.
The organization seized large swathes of Iraq and Syria in 2014, including Raqqa, which was its main stronghold, but has launched hit-and-run attacks since it lost its last significant piece of land in Syria in 2019.
The remaining militants have been hiding in remote areas in recent years but are still capable of launching attacks.
The SDF said a major attack by the Islamic State on al-Sina’a prison in the northeastern city of Hasaka in January left around 500 people dead, including 374 with ties to the group and dozens of fighters from the SDF and prison staff.
(Prepared by Muhammad Aysem for the Arab Bulletin – Edited by Yasmine Hussein)
