SULAIMANI (ESTA) — At least six members of the Kurdish security forces were killed on Monday in Syria’s Raqaqa following an Islamic State (ISIS) suicide attack, according to a senior Kurdish Commander.
The Commander-in-Chief of the U.S.-backed Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), Mazloum Abdi, confirmed six Kurdish-led security force members were killed in the ISIS suicide, he wrote in a tweet.
One suicide bomber was killed and another detained, Farhad Shami, head of the SDF’s media center, said.
Islamic State took over vast swathes of Iraq and Syria in 2014, including Raqqa which was its main seat of power, but since losing its last significant piece of territory in Syria in 2019 it has resorted to guerrilla attacks.
Its remaining thousands of militants have in recent years mostly hid out in remote hinterlands though they are still capable of carrying out insurgent-style attacks.
