The al-Quds Brigade, made up of Palestinian volunteers assisting the Syrian army, suffered a tragic loss on Thursday, when 22 members were ambushed and killed in Syria's eastern Homs countryside.

The ambush, carried out by terrorist organization ISIS, targeted a sleeper bus for the auxiliary forces in the Al-Sukhna area.

Security sources explained that the ambush occurred "during a shift change between the rotating units near the town of Al-Tayyibah in the Al-Sukhna area, northeast of Tadmur in the eastern countryside of Homs, where clashes lasted for about an hour."

The sources added that "the terrorists used rocket shells during the attack to target the buses transporting the auxiliary forces."

It is worth noting that ISIS "sleeper cells" are spread throughout the Syrian Desert, where they seek refuge at the al-Tanf US occupation base. Additionally, they frequently launch attacks on civilian and military buses, resulting in casualties.

HTS attack repelled by Syrian Arab Army and National Defense Forces

The Syrian Arab Army and National Defense Forces repelled an attack by ISIS-affiliated terrorist cells on April 6 on military posts in the suburbs of al-Raqqa.

On April 1st, Israeli occupation forces launched an aerial attack from the occupied Syrian Golan on several locations in the Syrian capital Damascus.

The attack resulted in two injuries among civilians and few material losses, the source added. Syrian air defense systems intercepted several aerial targets in the attack on the Syrian capital. 

Concurrently, the terror organization Hay'at Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) launched a large-scale attack on the Syrian Arab Army's (SAA) positions in Jabal al-Zawiyah in southern Idlib. The Syrian Armed Forces foiled the attack while artillery units targeted several HTS supply lines.