The regime forces continue achieve wider control in Palmyra Desert

Homs Province, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights:
The regime forces targeted using heavy machineguns places in ​​Houla area in the northern countryside of Homs, resulting in material damage, no information about injuries, while clashes are taking place between the regime forces and militiamen loyal to them against members of the “Islamic State” organization in areas located in Palmyra Desert  in the eastern countryside of Homs, accompanied by the continued intensified shelling by the regime forces on areas controlled by the organization in the eastern desert of Homs.