Despite military campaigns and airstrikes | ISIS members carry out attack on group affiliated with “Liwa’a Al-Quds” in Homs desert destroying two military vehicles
Homs province: Members of ISIS carried out an attack, with medium and heavy weapons, on a group affiliated with the Russia-backed “Liwa’a Al-Quds” in Homs desert.
According to SOHR sources, ISIS members attacked a military group known as “Abu Zainab” affiliated with “Liwa’a Al-Quds” in the area between Qasr Al-Hayr and Al-Sukhnah in eastern Homs. This coincided with violent clashes between both sides.
The clashes left a member of the group dead and two military vehicles belonging to the group and a Dushka machinegun belonging to ISIS destroyed, then the attackers fled to an unknown destination in the desert.
It is worth noting that the group’s members had arrived in the area as part of the military reinforcement sent by regime forces and their proxies to the Syrian desert to start combing operations and pursue members of ISIS cells, who have escalated their attacks, disregarding military campaigns and Russian airstrikes that have failed so far to weaken ISIS members or reduce their capabilities.
According to SOHR statistics, the number of fatalities in military operations in the Syrian desert since early 2024 has increased to 558; 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.
- 454 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: 66 operations left 161 fatalities:
- 127 combatants, including 15 Iranian-backed militiamen.
- 14 ISIS members.
- 20 civilians, including 17 truffle pickers, among them there was a woman.
-Homs desert: 88 operations left 261 fatalities:
- 217 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 seven Iranian-backed militiaman
- Seven civilians, including a child.
Three ISIS members
-Aleppo: Two operations left five combatants, including three Iranian-backed militiamen, dead.