New attack | IS*IS cells launch sneak attack and ki*ll two members of the regime in Homs
Homs province: Gunmen of ISIS cells from the depth of the Syrian Desert launched a sneak attack with light and medium weapons, targeting a military checkpoint of the 18th Division of the regime forces in Al-Dawa area western of Palmyra City, where violent clashes erupted between both parties and two members of the regime forces were killed and others were injured, before ISIS cells fled towards Jabal Al-Omour (Mountain) areas near the site of clashes on the northern side.
According to SOHR statistics, the number of fatalities in military operations in the Syrian desert since early 2024 has increased to 500; 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.
422 members of regime forces and their proxy militias, including 35 Iranian-backed Syrian militiamen and three members of the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps, were killed in 180 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 and a woman, were killed in attacks by ISIS in the Syrian desert.
Here is a regional distribution of ISIS attacks:
-Deir Ezzor desert: 64 operations left 153 fatalities:
125 combatants, including 14 Iranian-backed militiamen.
Eight ISIS members.
20 civilians, including 17 truffle pickers, among them there was a woman.
-Homs desert: 81 operations left 239 fatalities:
205 combatants, including 15 Iranian-backed militiamen.
18 ISIS members.
16 civilians, including two truffle pickers.
-Al-Raqqah desert: 22 operations left 61 fatalities:
52 combatants, including two Iranian-backed militiamen.
Three ISIS members.
Six civilians, including two truffle pickers.
-Hama desert: 11 operations left 42 fatality:
35 combatant, including an Iranian-backed militiaman.
Seven civilians, including a child.
-Aleppo: Two operations left five combatants, including three Iranian-backed militiamen, dead.