ISIS resurgence | Civilian and seven members of regime forces killed in bloody attack in Al-Raqqah desert

Al-Raqqah province: The number of fatalities in the bloody attack, which was carried out by ISIS members this morning in Al-Rasafah area in Al-Raqqah countryside, has increased to eight: a civilian and seven members of regime forces, including three officers.

 

Earlier today, SOHR sources reported that members an ISIS cell carried out an attack, targeting three vehicles, one of which was military, south-west of Shanan town on Shuwaihan military road in Al-Rasafah area in Al-Raqqah countryside, where the regime forces “Al-Hajanah” are stationed on the road in several locations, while “ISIS” is active, exploiting the wide area and its experience in its geography.

 

According to SOHR statistics, the number of fatalities in military operations in the Syrian desert since early 2024 has increased to 576; and they are as follows:

 

• 47 ISIS members, 21 of whom were killed in Russian airstrikes and the others were killed by regime forces and their proxy militias and shepherds.

 

• 473 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 195 operations by ISIS members, including ambushes, armed attacks, and explosions, in west Euphrates region and the deserts of Deir Ezzor, Al-Raqqah, Homs.

 

• 58 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: 68 operations left 162 fatalities:

 

• 128 combatants, including 15 Iranian-backed militiamen.

 

• 14 ISIS members.

 

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

 

-Homs desert: 90 operations left 265 fatalities:

 

• 221 combatants, including 15 Iranian-backed militiamen.

 

• 25 ISIS members.

 

• 19 civilians, including two truffle pickers.

 

-Al-Raqqah desert: 26 operations left 76 fatalities:

 

• 59 combatants, including two Iranian-backed militiamen.

 

• Five ISIS members.

 

• 12 civilians, including two truffle pickers.

 

-Hama desert: 19 operations left 70 fatality:

 

• 60 combatant, including seven Iranian-backed militiamen.

 

• Seven civilians, including a child.

 

• Three ISIS members.

 

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