Amid combing operation by regime forces | Russian airstrikes target ISIS hideouts in Homs desert
Russian fighter jets carried out several airstrikes targeting the mountains of the deserts of Palmyra and Al-Sukhnah in the eastern countryside of Homs. The targeted sites believed to contain caves where ISIS are hiding.
In the past few days, Russian fighter jets executed a series of airstrikes on different positions in the Syrian desert.
The Russian airstrikes coincided with the ongoing combing operations which was launched by regime forces, supported by Russian forces, in Jabal Al-Ammour in east Homs desert and areas in Deir Ezzor desert.
In early October, SOHR sources reported that regime forces brought in military reinforcement, including tanks, heavy canons and troops of the 25th Division (special forces), the Republican Guard Forces and the 11th Division, to the Syrian desert in order to start a combing operation in the area stretching from Al-Sukhnah to Jabal Al-Bishri in the east and Jabal Al-Ammour and Al-Balaas to the west.