On Thursday, ISIS terrorist group killed nine Iranian Revolutionary Guards-affiliated fighters in Syria in an attack on one of their positions in eastern Syria, according to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (SOHR)
In a statement, the SOHR said that an ISIS sleeper cell carried out the dawn attack on the desert outpost outside the Euphrates Valley town of Al-Mayadeen.
The observatory head Rami Abdul Rahman said the fighters killed were among the Iran's elite Revolutionary Guards in Syria.
At least two ISIS fighters were killed in ensuing clashes.
"Since March 2019, intermittent fighting has killed more than 1,000 government troops and allied Iran-backed militiamen, most of them in sparsely populated areas of the Syrian Desert," the Observatory said.
"More than 580 IS jihadists have also died," the monitor said.
IS overran large parts of Syria and Iraq and proclaimed a cross-border "caliphate" in 2014, before multiple offensives in the two countries led to its territorial defeat.
"The war in Syria has killed more than 387,000 people since it started in 2011," the Observatory said.
The dead include more than 130,500 pro-government fighters, among the dead are foreigners.
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