According to WHO, Israel has approved fewer than half of the requested aid-delivery missions in Gaza.
An opposition war monitor reported that militants from the Islamic State (IS) group attacked military barracks in central Syria, killing nine soldiers. The Syrian army and officials have not confirmed the attack, as reported by news agency The Associated Press (AP).
IS claimed responsibility for the attack near the town of Al-Sukhna, stating that its fighters seized weapons abandoned by fleeing soldiers and set fire to the barracks. The militants’ statement claiming responsibility was posted late on Tuesday, according to AP.
The attack was the latest in intensifying clashes in the desert in eastern Syria between the militants and the Syrian army, supported by Iran-backed militias. The UK-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, a war monitoring group, says IS has carried out 41 attacks so far this year there.
Three Syrian troops were wounded in addition to the nine killed in Al-Sukhna, according to the Observatory.
IS militants have found refuge in the desert in remote areas in Syria and along the Iraqi-Syrian border, where they continue to stage attacks nearly five years after the group was defeated in Syria in 2019.
US troops in north-eastern Syria and US-backed Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces have conducted numerous operations against the remaining IS militants. According to AP, the US has approximately 900 troops in Syria focused on countering the group’s remnants.
Since war erupted in Gaza on 7 October after Hamas’ surprise attack and incursion into southern Israel, US bases in eastern Syria and Iraq have come under regular attack by an umbrella group of Iran-backed Iraqi militias called the Iraqi Islamic Resistance.
The militias say the attacks are in response to Washington’s support for Israel.
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2024-02-14 09:29:16
Original from www.theguardian.com