ISIS extremists on Thursday killed at least 18 regime fighters in an attack in central Syria, a war monitor said. Pro-government fighters backed by Russian airstrikes were battling off the extremists on the outskirts of the desert town of Al-Sukhna in Homs province, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said. The air raids and clashes killed 11 ISIS fighters, the Britain-based monitor said. “The Russian aviation intervened to stop the jihadists from advancing and retaking the town,” Observatory chief Rami Abdel Rahman said. Syrian regime forces recaptured Al-Sukhna from ISIS in 2017. Thursday’s attack was the deadliest in the area since December, when ISIS fighters attacked an army garrison in a gas facility east of Homs city, killing four civilians and 13 troops or militiamen, Abdel Rahman said.ISIS proclaimed a “caliphate” in parts of Syria and neighboring Iraq in 2014. After years of various offensives against it, US-backed forces finally expelled the extremists from their last patch of territory in eastern Syria a year ago. But ISIS fighters still retain a presence in the vast Badia desert stretching across the country through Homs province and eastwards to the Iraqi border, and continue to carry out deadly attacks. Read more: EU considering more Syria sanctions after chemical weapons report Syria reports first coronavirus case ISIS issues travel warning to coronavirus-hit countries Syria’s war has killed more than 380,000 people and displaced millions since starting in 2011 with the brutal repression of anti-government protests. اي استفسار أو طلب خاص بخصوص التوظيف يمكنك التواصل مع الابميل التالي – مجير الموقع : alturky28@gmail.com لطلبات التصميم او البرمجة التواصل مع : hamzalaabar@gmail.com