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On September 22, three soldiers of the Syrian Arab Army (SAA) were killed as a result of an attack in Syria’s central region that was attributed to ISIS.
The soldiers lost their lives when their military truck was struck with a roadside bomb as it was passing on a road near the town of al-San in the eastern countryside of Hama. A fourth soldier was wounded in the attack. The bomb was reportedly planted by one of ISIS’s remaining cells in the area.
The three soldiers, identified as Zakaria Gomaa al-Saleh, Muhammad Alaa al-Jadi and Ismail Ammar Jaber, were serving in the ranks of the SAA’s elite 25th Special Mission Forces Division, commonly known as the Tiger Forces.
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- Zakaria Gomaa al-Saleh.
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- Muhammad Alaa al-Jadi
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- Ismail Ammar Jaber.
The 25th Special Mission Forces Division is mainly deployed around the northwestern region of Greater Idlib, which is occupied by al-Qaeda-affiliated Hay’at Tahrir al-Sham and several other terrorist groups. However, it also retains a large force in the central region to help counter ISIS cells there.
The deadly attack in al-San is worrying, as it confirms that ISIS’s remaining cells in the eastern Hama countryside are still active.
Over the last few months, the SAA and its allies conducted a series of operations against ISIS in the eastern Homs countryside, the southern Raqqa countryside and the western countryside of Deir Ezzor. The al-San attack will likely shift their attention to the eastern Hama countryside.
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