Idlib:Two personnel from the Syrian Defense Ministry were fatally shot by unidentified attackers in Al-Foua, located in the northeastern countryside of Idlib province, as reported by state media.

According to Anadolu Agency – English, the Syrian Arab News Agency (SANA) covered the incident but did not provide details regarding the identities of the victims or the circumstances surrounding the shooting. The perpetrators remain unidentified.

This incident follows previous reports by the Defense Ministry of other fatal attacks on soldiers by unidentified gunmen in eastern Syria earlier in the month. A soldier was confirmed dead on October 19 in Al-Baghouz, in the eastern Deir ez-Zor countryside, as reported by Alikhbaria television channel citing a source within the ministry's Media and Communication Department. Earlier, on October 10, the ministry announced another soldier's death from wounds sustained in a shooting incident on October 6 in the town of Buqrus, also in eastern rural Deir ez-Zor.