During combing operation | Landmine explosion leaves four members of NDF dead and nearly 20 other injured in west Deir Ezzor desert

Deir Ezzor province: Four members of National Defense Forces were killed and 18 others sustained various injuries, some seriously, due to the explosion of an old landmine planted earlier by ISIS members, while they were combing Al-Shajeri village in Al-Masrab district in the western Deir Ezzor desert within regime-held area.

 

The injured members were taken to the hospital for treatment.

 

According to SOHR statistics, the number of fatalities in military operations in the Syrian desert since early 2023 has increased to 561; and they are as follows:

 

• 44 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.

 

• 352 members of regime forces and their proxy militias, including 43 Iranian-backed Syrian and non-Syrian militiamen, were killed in 146 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.

 

• 165 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: 53 operations left 236 fatalities:

 

• 134 combatants, including 16 Iranian-backed militias.

 

• 89 civilians, including a woman.

 

• 13 ISIS members.

 

-Al-Raqqah desert: 13 operations left 39 fatalities:

 

• 35 combatants.

 

• Three ISIS members.

 

• One civilian.

 

-Deir Ezzor desert: 59 operations which left 171 fatalities:

 

• 138 combatants, including 22 Iranian-backed militias.

 

• 14 ISIS members.

 

• 19 civilians.

 

-Hama desert: 18 operations which left 97 fatalities:

 

• 53 civilians.

 

• 37 combatants, including five Iranian-backed militiamen.

 

• Seven ISIS members.

 

-Aleppo desert: Four operations left five combatants, including two members of the 25th Division, and three civilians dead.

 

-Al-Suwaidaa desert: One operation left three combatants dead