Death toll update | 33 regime soldiers killed in most violent operation by “ISIS” during 2023
SOHR sources have reported that the death toll of the recent operation of “ISIS” in the Syrian desert increased to 33 regime soldiers, who were killed in the most violent attack carried out by “ISIS” against them since the beginning of 2023, which targeted at least one military bus within Al-Mayadeen desert on Deir Ezzor-Homs road. The death toll is likely to increase due to the presence of injured people, some of whom are in serious condition, while two buses and the passengers of the third bus were survived from the bloody “ISIS” attack.
According to SOHR statistics, the number of fatalities in military operations in the Syrian desert since early 2023 has increased to 412; and they are as follows:
• 20 ISIS members were killed in clashes with regime forces and Russian airstrikes on ISIS hideouts in the deserts of Homs, Al-Suwaidaa, Hama, Al-Raqqah, Deir Ezzor and Aleppo.
• 235 members of regime forces and their proxy militias, including 37 Iranian-backed Syrian and non-Syrian militiamen, were killed in 106 operations by ISIS members, including ambushes, armed attacks, and explosions, in west Euphrates region and the deserts of Deir Ezzor, Al-Raqqah, Homs, Al-Suwaidaa, Hama and Aleppo.
• 157 civilians, including a woman, were killed in attacks by ISIS in the Syrian desert.
Here is a regional distribution of ISIS attacks in 2023:
-Homs desert: 35 operations left 160 fatalities:
• 67 combatants, including 12 Iranian-backed militias.
• 88 civilians, including a woman.
• Five ISIS members.
-Al-Raqqah desert: 11 operations left 33 fatalities:
• 29 combatants.
• Three ISIS members.
• One civilian.
-Deir Ezzor desert: 42 operations which left 118 fatalities:
• 95 combatants, including 20 Iranian-backed militias.
• Seven ISIS members.
• 16 civilian.
-Hama desert: 15 operations which left 87 fatalities:
• 49 civilians.
• 34 combatants, including five Iranian-backed militiamen.
• Five ISIS members.
-Aleppo desert: Three operations left three combatants, including two members of the 25th Division, and three civilians dead.