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Four Syrian security personnel were killed in an Islamic State (IS) group attack in the northern city of Raqqa, which was recently taken by Damascus from Kurdish forces, state media reported on Monday.

The attack, the second against security forces in as many days per Syria's interior ministry, comes after IS called on its fighters to confront Syrian authorities.

The official SANA news agency quoted a security source as saying that "four members of the internal security forces" were killed in an attack attributed to IS.

Syria's interior ministry said the "terrorist attack" had targeted a checkpoint and that one of the assailants was killed.

The ministry made no mention of casualties in the previous incident on Sunday, but said it too had resulted in the killing of one attacker.

Last month, Syria's government took Raqqa city from Kurdish forces who, with US backing, had led the fight against IS until its territorial defeat in Syria in 2019. Iraq had claimed victory over the militant group two years earlier.

IS had once used Raqqa as its de facto capital.

The group retains sleeper cells in Syria's vast desert lands.

Since ousting longtime ruler Bashar al-Assad in December 2024, Syria's new authorities, who had links to the Al-Qaeda jihadist group, have sought to break from their radical past and present a moderate image.

Last year, Syria joined the US-led coalition against IS and has been coordinating attacks against the group's remnants in the country.

AFP