IS*IS resurgence | Gunmen ki*ll officer and member of regime forces in Homs

Homs province: Two members of the regime including an officer ranked as “lieutenant” were killed in an attack by ISIS cells on the vicinity of Arak Gas Field in eastern Homs countryside.

According to reliable SOHR sources, the “lieutenant” hails from Al-Hajana Town in Rif Dimashq and the other member hails from Homs countryside.

According to SOHR statistics, the number of fatalities in military operations in the Syrian desert since early 2024 has increased to 570; 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.

466 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 203 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: 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 265fatalities:

221 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: 19 operations left 70 fatalities:

60 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.