Damascus – The Syrian regime previously announced an increase in bombings and attacks against its forces in the countryside surrounding Damascus, which shows that it was able to increase security and reach a number of agreements with the populace despite the fact that the threat posed by armed groups, particularly ISIS, still exists.
Local radio station Sham FM reported today, Thursday, that an explosive device on a military bus killed several soldiers, but it gave no further information.
17 troops were killed in the blast, according to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, which tracks military developments in the 11-year battle. No one has taken responsibility, though.
This attack, which resulted in such a high death toll, shows that ISIS or other groups with the same strict ideologies are still active in regions close to the Syrian capital even after the authorities declared the extremists’ control over the majority of the countryside surrounding Damascus to be over and the capital to be secure.
A number of Syrian combatants and their families have been deported to the north of the nation, which is still under the control of the armed opposition, mainly the Idlib governorate, in recent years by the Syrian regime, which altered the battle equation due to Russian and Iranian militia backing.
In order to carry out reconciliations concurrently with the intelligence and security activity, the regime started carrying out a number of settlements with defectors or individuals sought by the security services in the recent months.
It appears that the Syrian regime has eased its security grip and road control as a result of an increasing sense of safety, but it seems that the last attack revealed that the anti -Syrian organizations, headed by ISIS, are still active and possessed asleep cells.
Observers believe that in order to demonstrate that it still has authority over the region and is still capable of pursuing the terrorists, the Syrian government would likely initiate military and security operations to apprehend individuals responsible for those attacks.
Despite boasting of wins, some think that the Syrian government is still unable to put a stop to the fighting throughout the nation and in the capital’s Qarba neighbourhoods. A Syrian army member was killed in a similar explosion in February.
While the Syrian government media reported that the operation involved an air landing in a village controlled by the regime troops, American soldiers last week attacked a key figure in the Islamic State during a raid in northeastern Syria.
The US military later confirmed that a helicopter raid targeting a village controlled by the Syrian government in the northeast of the country targeting and killing Rakan Waheed Al -Shammari, the Islamic State, who said it was easy to smuggle weapons and fighters.
These events seem to indicate that the Syrian regime is still unable to deal with ISIS’s sleeper cells, which have grown to pose a serious threat.
A brutal incident in the countryside of Damascus exposes rising Islamist activity.
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