“Members of the ISIS terrorist cell were arrested in the town of Jadidat al-Shibani in the Barada Valley, a suburb of Damascus,” a ministry source told the Syrian Arab News Agency (SANA), without giving further details, Anadolia reports.
Three Americans, including two military personnel and one civilian, were killed on December 13 and three American soldiers were wounded in an ISIS ambush in the central city of Palmyra, according to the US Central Command (CENTCOM).
Syria formally joined the US-led international coalition against ISIS on November 12.
The coalition was formed in 2014 and has been conducting military operations against the terrorist group in Syria and Iraq, although Damascus was not previously a member.
The new Syrian administration has been working to tighten security conditions across the country since the fall of Bashar al-Assad’s regime in late 2024.
(Vijesti.ba)
