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ERBIL, Kurdistan Region - The Kurdish-led Internal Security Forces (Asayish) in northeast Syria (Rojava) stated that two of their members and a civilian were injured in a motorcycle attack in Raqqa province.
In a Monday statement, the Asayish said the attack occurred in the evening that day in al-Mansoura city, in the eastern part of al-Tabqa district. 'Two assailants riding a motorcycle carried out the treacherous attack targeting two members of our forces' using Klashnikov rifles, the statement said.
Tabqa is located roughly 40 kilometers southeast of Raqqa city and is under the control of the Kurdish-led administration in Rojava.
"The cowardly assault resulted in the injury of two of our forces, as well as a civilian who happened to be at the location at the moment of targeting," the statement added without explicitly naming the side behind the attack.
The attack follows a series of recent assaults on Kurdish-led forces in the region.
Earlier in July, the Asayish reported that five of their members were killed and two others were injured in an attack they attributed to 'terrorist groups.'
On the same day, the UK-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (SOHR) said the attack was carried out by an Islamic State (ISIS) cell.
SOHR added that since the beginning of 2025, it has 'documented 126 ISIS operations' in areas administered by the Democratic Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria (DAANES). 'These operations included armed assaults, targeted killings and bombings,' resulting in the deaths of 51 individuals - 34 fighters from the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), nine civilians, and eight ISIS members.
The US-backed SDF was instrumental in defeating ISIS in 2019 and capturing thousands of the group's fighters. The force continues to operate in coordination with hundreds of US troops as part of the Global Coalition to Defeat ISIS.
Both the SDF and Asayish are also primarily responsible for securing the Roj and al-Hol camps in Rojava, which house thousands of individuals suspected of ISIS ties.
Since its territorial defeat in 2019, ISIS has been trying to regain its strength. However, it ramped up its efforts particularly after a coalition of opposition groups, led by the now-dissolved Hay'at Tahrir al-Sham (HTS), in early December toppled the regime of longtime Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad.
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