IS-IS” att-ack | Five Iranian-backed gunmen of Syrian nationality kil-led and inju-red in Al-Bokamal desert
Deir Ezzor province: Two members of Syrian nationality were killed and three others were injured from the Iranian-backed gunmen of Syrian nationality, after being targeted by unknown gunmen who are likely to belong to “ISIS” cells, during their return from one of the military posts in Al-Salihiyah desert in Al-Bokamal countryside within areas held by the regime forces and Iranian militias in the eastern countryside of Deir Ezzor. The injured were taken to the field hospital in Al-Bokamal city for treatment.
According to SOHR statistics, the number of fatalities in military operations in the Syrian desert since early 2024 has increased to 478; and they are as follows:
29 ISIS members, three of whom were killed in Russian airstrikes and the others were killed by regime forces and their proxy militias.
400 members of regime forces and their proxy militias, including 33 Iranian-backed Syrian militiamen and three members of the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps, were killed in 170 operations by ISIS members, including ambushes, armed attacks, and explosions, in west Euphrates region and the deserts of Deir Ezzor, Al-Raqqah, Homs.
49 civilians, including a child, a sorcerer and a woman, were killed in attacks by ISIS in the Syrian Desert.
Here is a regional distribution of ISIS attacks:
-Deir Ezzor desert: 60 operations left 147 fatalities:
119 combatants, including 14 Iranian-backed militiamen.
Eight ISIS members.
20 civilians, including 17 truffle pickers, among them there was a woman.
-Homs desert: 76 operations left 222 fatalities:
189 combatants, including 15 Iranian-backed militiamen.
18 ISIS members.
16 civilians, including two truffle pickers.
-Al-Raqqah desert: 21 operations left 73 fatalities:
56 combatants, including two Iranian-backed militiamen.
Three ISIS members.
Four civilians, including two truffle pickers.
-Hama desert: 11 operations left 42 fatalities:
35 combatants, including an Iranian-backed militiaman.
Seven civilians, including a child.
-Aleppo: Two operations left five combatants, including three Iranian-backed militiamen, dead.