The UK-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (SOHR) said that at least 19 others were wounded in the attack, amid an escalation of ISIS attacks since the start of the year in areas under the control of the Syrian government.
The war monitor also reported that clashes occurred between ISIS militants and Syrian regime soldiers in Raqqa, which ended with the militants withdrawing towards the Syrian desert.
A Syrian army lieutenant was killed in the Raqqa skirmish, according to SOHR.
ISIS rose to power and seized swathes of Syrian and Iraqi land in a brazen offensive in 2014, declaring a so-called “caliphate.”
While the group was declared territorially defeated in Iraq and Syria in 2017 and 2019 respectively, it still continues to pose serious security risks through hit-and-run attacks, bombings, and abductions, especially across the vast expanses of the Syrian desert as well as several Iraqi provinces.
At least 34 pro-government forces and army soldiers were killed in an ISIS attack in the Syrian desert in November.
