Ten workers are dead after terrorists attacked three buses in Syria early Friday morning, according to a Syrian state-controlled news agency.
The Syrian Arab News Agency says it happened near the al Taym oil field in Deir Ezzor, Syria. The outlet says two people were also injured. The attack comes just a day after Syrian Kurdish-led forces announced an offensive against ISIS, Al Jazeera reports. It is believed the attacks were carried out by ISIS.
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“The attack began with explosive devices that went off as the buses drove by, and then the group’s militants shot at them,” Rami Abdel Rahman, director of the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, said, according to Al Jazeera.
U.S. Central Command released data on Thursday as part of a year-in-review summation of its operations against the Islamic State, saying it carried out a total of 313 operations against the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria in the 2022 calendar year that resulted in the death or detention of more than a thousand ISIS operatives.
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Deir Ezzor is the largest city in eastern Syria.
