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ISIS attack kills 32 at Syria refugee camp

At least 38 people were killed on Tuesday (May 2nd) in an "Islamic State of Iraq and Syria" (ISIS) attack near a refugee camp on the Syrian side of the border with Iraq, AFP reported.

The attack came as as another surprise ISIS attack on Tuesday killed 10 soldiers in Iraq, to the south along the border.

The dawn ISIS attack in Syria's north-east hit a makeshift camp where some 300 families were waiting to cross into territory held by the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) in al-Hasakeh province.

"At least five suicide attackers blew themselves up outside and inside a camp for Iraqi refugees and displaced Syrians in al-Hasakeh province," said Rami Abdel Rahman, the head of the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights.

Heavy clashes then erupted between ISIS fighters and the SDF, some of whose combatants were among the dead, Abdel Rahman said.

The makeshift camp lies in the Rajm al-Salibeh area just inside Syrian territory, and at least 23 of the dead were displaced Syrians or Iraqi refugees, the Observatory said.

"At least 30 people were wounded, and the death toll may rise because some people are in critical condition and others are still unaccounted for," it said.

The other ISIS attack in Iraq saw extremists fire on an army base near the remote outpost of Rutba, near the country's western borders with Syria and Jordan.

An Iraqi army lieutenant colonel told AFP that ISIS fighters fired mortar rounds and rockets at the 1st Division base in the Saggar area, east of Rutba, before trying to storm it.

ISIS appeared to be trying to breach the defence of Rutba, which is the last sizeable town on the road from Baghdad to the Jordanian border, as well as to create diversions to ease pressure on its fighters in Mosul, military officials said.

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