Daesh attack in Syria kills at least 26 people: monitor

BEIRUT: Suspected Daesh group militants killed at least 26 people in central Syria on Sunday, according to a war monitor, the latest in a string of attacks on locals foraging for desert truffles.

The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, headquartered in the United Kingdom, reported that “civilians and at least 10 pro-regime fighters” were among “the 26 people killed in an attack by Daesh fighters while they were collecting truffles in the desert east of (the central city of) Hama.”

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