{"id":17411,"date":"2025-05-31T15:02:43","date_gmt":"2025-05-31T15:02:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailywashingtoninsider.com\/index.php\/2025\/05\/31\/isis-claims-first-attacks-against-forces-loyal-to-new-government-in-syria\/"},"modified":"2025-05-31T15:02:43","modified_gmt":"2025-05-31T15:02:43","slug":"isis-claims-first-attacks-against-forces-loyal-to-new-government-in-syria","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailywashingtoninsider.com\/index.php\/2025\/05\/31\/isis-claims-first-attacks-against-forces-loyal-to-new-government-in-syria\/","title":{"rendered":"ISIS claims first attacks against forces loyal to new government in Syria"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cmbc448df004g26nt076z8xsf@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">            ISIS has claimed two attacks on Syrian security forces \u2013 the first since the transitional government under former jihadist Ahmed al-Sharaa took office.    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cmbc481x600083b6m42zxeqi6@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">            The terror group, also known as Islamic State, said it had killed and injured seven members of \u201cthe apostate Syrian regime\u201d with an explosive device that was detonated on a road in southern Syria. It said the attack took place in the remote desert area of Talul al Safa in the southern Syrian province of Suwayda.    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cmbc481x6000a3b6mtxm9qlfz@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">            Units of the Free Syrian Army are supported by the US military in what is called the al Tanf Deconfliction Zone close to the borders with Jordan and Egypt, where the US has a small outpost.    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cmbc481x6000b3b6mqvxtwfvc@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">            The source added that the Talul al Safa area is \u201cextremely rugged and dangerous area, as ISIS had been exploiting its terrain for a long time.\u201d    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cmbc481x6000c3b6mn8kn1moh@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">            ISIS lost almost all the territory it controlled in Syria by the end of 2017 but has maintained a foothold in Syria\u2019s vast central desert. ISIS claimed another attack in the same area several days ago.    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cmbc481x6000e3b6mpg3ersgn@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">            The Washington DC-based Institute for the Study of War says the group has likely maintained cells in southern Syria despite not carrying out any attacks there for at least two years.    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cmbc481x6000f3b6mungwufln@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">            The US and other Western governments have urged the new Syrian government to prevent a resurgence of ISIS and other terror groups on Syrian soil. But the government has struggled to extend its authority to Suwayda, where there have been clashes between Druze and Sunni groups.    <\/p>\n<\/p>\n<div>This post appeared first on cnn.com<\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ISIS has claimed two attacks on Syrian security forces \u2013 the first since the transitional&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":17412,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17411","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailywashingtoninsider.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17411","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailywashingtoninsider.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailywashingtoninsider.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailywashingtoninsider.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailywashingtoninsider.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17411"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailywashingtoninsider.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17411\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailywashingtoninsider.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17412"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailywashingtoninsider.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17411"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailywashingtoninsider.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17411"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailywashingtoninsider.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17411"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}