Syrian desert in 2024 | Three members of NDF killed and injured in new ISIS attack, bringing number of casualties in three attacks to 40

A member of National Defence Forces was killed and two others were injured due to the explosion of an old landmine planted earlier by ISIS members in Al-Tabani desert in Deir Ezzor countryside.

It is worth noting that ISIS members have carried out three attacks since the beginning of 2024. These attacks have left 14 members dead and 25 members of regime forces, National Defense Forces and Iranian-backed militias injured.
On January 2, SOHR sources reported that members of ISIS carried out an attack with machineguns and medium weapons targeted positions of Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps in the western desert of Al-Duwer town in eastern Deir Ezzor countryside. The attack left four members of Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps died and three Syrian members injured, while the attackers fled to an unknown destination into the desert.
Meanwhile, SOHR sources reported that gunmen from “ISIS” cells launched a surprise attack, starting from depth of the Syrian desert, targeting positions and gatherings of regime and National Defence forces, in Al-Tebni desert. The attack resulted in the killing of nearly nine regime soldiers and “National Defence” members and the injury of more than 20 others, and information about others, where the clashes continued from yesterday evening until dawn today, before “ISIS” members withdrew from the positions they controlled in the desert of Al-Tebni and Maadan towns, in the western countryside of Deir Ezzor, and their seizure of a “Kia” car with a 57 mm cannon and its ammunition, and destroying three military four-wheel drive “Pickup” trucks.