A general view shows the city of Damascus Photograph:( Reuters )
Damascus, Syria Sanaa news agency (SNA)
"At least 18 Syrian army soldiers were killed and 27 wounded in a terrorist attack on a military bus in a suburb near Damascus on Thursday," the official Sanaa news agency said.
So far no jihadi organization has claimed responsibility for the attack, but it is believed that some terrorist organization is behind the attack.
The war in Syria that began in 2011 has killed nearly half a million people and forced nearly half of the country's pre-war population to leave their homes.
This is not the first time the Syrian army has been attacked. Even before this, the Syrian army has been attacked several times.
Earlier on June 13, a Syrian military bus was attacked in the northern province of Raqqa. The responsibility of which was claimed by the Islamic State group.