The Syrian Observatory For Human Rights

Sneak attack | Four members of the regime forces including an officer kil*led by IS*IS in Syrian Desert

Deir Ezzor province: gunmen of ISIS cells from the depth of the Syrian Desert launched a sneak attack with light and medium weapons targeting a group of members of the regime forces in Kabajeb Desert in Deir Ezzor countryside, where a brigadier general and 3 members were killed before the gunmen fled to an unknown destination in the desert.

According to SOHR statistics, the number of fatalities in military operations in the Syrian desert since early 2024 has increased to 561; and they are as follows:

47 ISIS members, three of whom were killed in Russian airstrikes and the others were killed by regime forces and their proxy militias.

457 members of regime forces and their proxy militias, including 42 Iranian-backed Syrian militiamen and three members of the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps, were killed in 197 operations by ISIS members, including ambushes, armed attacks, and explosions, in west Euphrates region and the deserts of Deir Ezzor, Al-Raqqah, Homs.

57 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: 67 operations left 159 fatalities:

131 combatants, including 14 Iranian-backed militiamen.

Eight ISIS members.

20 civilians, including 17 truffle pickers, among them there was a woman.

-Homs desert: 87 operations left 260 fatalities:

216 combatants, including 15 Iranian-backed militiamen.

25 ISIS members.

19 civilians, including two truffle pickers.

-Al-Raqqah desert: 25 operations left 68 fatalities:

52 combatants, including two Iranian-backed militiamen

Five ISIS members.

11 civilians, including two truffle pickers.

-Hama desert: 16 operations left 63 fatalities:

53 combatants, including five Iranian-backed militiaman

Seven civilians, including a child.
Three ISIS members

-Aleppo: Two operations left five combatants, including three Iranian-backed militiamen, dead.