News - Middle East: The Daesh terrorist group has claimed an attack on the forces of the Hay'at Tahrir al-Sham (HTS)-led administration, the first of its kind on its former allies since the fall of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad.

In a statement picked up by SITE Intelligence Group on Thursday, Daesh said it had planted an “explosive device” on a vehicle of the HTS-led forces in the southern province of Suwayda.

SITE and the so-called Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (SOHR) said it was the first Daesh-claimed attack on Syria’s new administration.

The UK-based monitoring group, SOHR, said three members of the 70th Division of HTS forces were wounded when a patrol was hit by a remote-control landmine on Wednesday, adding a man, who was accompanying them, was killed in the desert area.

Abu Mohamad al-Jolani, who is a former senior commander in both al- Qaeda and Daesh, is now the de facto president of Syria.

In December, armed groups led by HTS militants, announced that they had fully captured the Syrian capital and announced the fall of President Assad’s government.

Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu recently described how the Israeli military helped the HTS takeover of Syria in December.

The security situation in Syria under the HTS - an offshoot of the al-Qaeda terrorist group - remains tenuous. Incidents of sectarian violence, including the massacre of hundreds of Alawites in March, have hardened fears among minority groups about the now dominant militants.
Source: Press TV