SYRIA – Armed gunmen carried an attack in Syria’s Raqqa province killing 2, including a soldier, according to the country’s Defense Ministry on Sunday.

An army member was targeted by unknown gunmen in the village of al-Wasita in the northern Raqqa countryside, resulting in his death along with a civilian, the ministry’s Media and Communications Directorate told the SANA news agency.

No further details were provided.

There was no immediate claim of responsibility for the attack.

ISIS (Daesh) sleeper cells are active in the region, which was previously controlled by the terrorist group in 2014 before it was ousted three years later by a US-led international coalition.

The area later fell under the control of the terror group YPG/SDF before the Syrian Army recently regained control of the region.