On January 29, a shuttle bus transporting a group of Iranian-backed fighters came under attack in Syria’s central region.

According to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (SOHR), ISIS terrorists targeted the bus as it was passing on a road leading to the town of al-Sawanah in the eastern countryside of Homs. The London-based monitoring group said that a number of Iranian-backed fighters who were wounded in the attack were taken to al-Qaryatayn hospital.

“Some of the wounded are in a critical condition,” the SOHR said in its report.

ISIS cells in central Syria have been escalating their attacks on government forces and their allies despite poor weather conditions.

A day earlier, four Iranian-backed fighters were reportedly wounded when ISIS terrorists attacked a number of military positions near the town of Se’alow in the southern countryside of Deir Ezzor.

Syrian government forces and their allies conduct operations against ISIS cells in the central region on a regular basis. Russian Aerospace Forces warplanes have reportedly carried out more than 600 airstrikes on the terrorist group’s hideouts in the region since the beginning of the year.

Source: South Front