Presumed ISIS militants attacked a police station of the Kurdish autonomous administration at al-Sabha in Syria’s eastern Deir ez-Zor province June 8. The attack with grenades and small arms was repulsed by the local Asayish police force without loss of life. But this was only the latest in a spate of new ISIS attacks in Syria. In a first attack on central government forces since the ouster the Assad dictatorship last December, ISIS boasted in a communique May 31 that its fighters had killed several soldiers of the “the apostate Syrian regime” at a road checkpoint in Talul al-Safa, in southern Suwayda province. That same day, one member of the Free Syrian Army was killed in an ambush by ISIS militants on an FSA patrol in al-Tanf Deconfliction Zone, a US military outpost near the Jordan border. (Rudaw, Kurdistan4, CNN)
The FSA is a remnant rebel faction operating under US protection and awaiting integration into the new government’s security forces.
The White Helmets volunteer emergency aid group, also known as the Syrian Civil Defense, has decided to merge into the new government, becoming part of the Ministry of Emergency & Disaster Management. “This integration marks a new beginning, as we move from civil society into institutional governance, carrying with us all the values of sacrifice, dedication, human dignity, and our timeless mission,” the group said in a statement. (TNH)
Photo: SOHR via Kurdistan4
