SANA via AP
- Islamic State militants killed more than 200 people in a coordinated assault on a government-held area of southwestern Syria on Wednesday.
- The group's attack is the deadliest the country has seen in years.
- The head of the Sweida provincial health authority told the pro-Damascus Sham FM that 215 people were killed and 180 injured in the attack, as well as 75 Islamic State fighters.
- Government troops and allied forces are battling to reclaim the last stretch of of Sweida province from Islamic State militants.
Islamic State militants killed more than 200 people in a coordinated assault on a government-held area of southwestern Syria on Wednesday, local officials and a war monitor said, in the group’s deadliest attack in the country for years.
Jihadist fighters stormed several villages and staged suicide blasts in the provincial capital Sweida, near one of the few remote pockets still held by Islamic State after it was driven from most of its territory last year.
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