In an attack in eastern Syria that IS terrorists are said to have carried out, at least 23 Syrian soldiers are reported to have died.
According to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, which is located in the UK, the jihadists surrounded a military bus in eastern Deir al-Zour province before opening fire.
Numerous soldiers are reported to be missing, along with more than ten more soldiers who were hurt.
According to IS extremists, the strike was the bloodiest of this year.
Although it lost the majority of its land in 2019, IS continues to operate out of hiding places in the vast Syrian desert, where it conducts ambushes and hit-and-run operations.
According to a military source published by Sana news agency, a “terrorist” group assaulted a military bus on Thursday in the steppe desert on the road from the T2 pumping station, which is located south of the city of Deir al-Zour and near to the Iraqi border. Several soldiers were killed and injured in the attack.
Before being taken over by the Syrian army in 2017, the T2 pumping station served as an IS bastion.
The death toll is probably going to go substantially, according to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (SOHR), a UK-based monitoring organisation that depends on a large network of sources on the ground in Syria.
Raqa province claimed the lives of 10 Syrian military and pro-government fighters.
In recent weeks, IS members have upped their attacks in the north and northeast of Syria.
According to the president of Turkey, Abu Hussein al-Qurayshi, a former suspected leader of the IS group in Syria, was killed by Turkish soldiers in April.
IS previously controlled 88,000 square kilometres (34,000 square miles) of land, extending from northern Iraq to northeastern Syria, where it brutally ruled over about eight million people.
The UN has issued a warning that despite the group’s expulsion from its final area of territory in 2019, it still poses a persistent threat.