At least 37 people in Syria have been killed in one of the biggest attacks carried out by Islamic State since the fall of the self-proclaimed caliphate last year.
The assault on Wednesday reportedly targeted a convoy of Syrian regime soldiers and militiamen returning from leave to their posts in restive Deir ez-Zor province, a mainly desert area on the border with Iraq.The official state news agency, Sana, reported that a terrorist attack on a bus on the main highway had killed 25 civilians and wound... [see source for more information]