12 days of returning the violent fighting to the Syrian Desert…about 400 casualties of the regime forces and ISIS…successive failure by the regime forces to recover areas they lost

The clashes of the Syrian Desert which are caused by the counter attacks by the “Islamic State” organization in areas in the eastern and the south-eastern countryside of Homs and the western desert of Deir Ezzor, entered its twelfth consecutive day, and the regime forces are still unable to recover the area they lost for the organization which carried out surprising and successive counter attacks, on the 28th of September 2017, targeted the regime forces in the contact areas and deep in the areas of their control in the desert of Homs and the western countryside of Deir Ezzor, where the regime forces are still unable to retake the control of Al-Qaryatayn city, Al-Tayba town, Al-Dahik mountain and other areas and heights in the northern and the eastern deserts of Al-Sukhnah and the vicinity and the outskirts of the city, although the regime forces managed to impose again their control on Al-Sukhnah – Deir Ezzor during the past 48 hours and scanned it, and restored other positions which used to be controlled by the organization.

The regime forces carried out several counter attacks in the eastern countryside of Homs, and failed in every attempt to advance as a result of fighting desperately by the regime forces to repel the attacks, and stop the regime forces to advance again, while the regime forces turn to carry out surprising and preliminary operations, in which they aim though such operations to test the strength of the organization in the areas it controls, and reliable sources confirmed to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights that the organization turned to arrest its wanted people, of who are accused by ” communication with the regime forces and working for them”, while the violent fighting during 12 days left great casualties in the ranks of the both parties, in which the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights has documented the death of at least 479 members of the both parties since the 28th of September 2017, until the 9th of October 2017, in which the death toll rose to 255 members at least of the regime forces and gunmen loyal to them, including 26 members of the Lebanese Hezbollah and about 91 members of the militiamen loyal to the regime forces of non-Syrian nationalities, while the death toll rose to about 255 members of ISIS of who were killed by blowing themselves up by using explosive belts and by booby trapped vehicles and in artillery and rocket shelling and raids and clashes against the regime forces in the areas where they attacked, in which the “Islamic State” organization which lost its presence in the provinces of Syria, and is under tight siege in its areas in some other provinces after losing much of what it used to control, yet, it did not miss an opportunity to strike the regime and Russia in their areas, where the recent attacks by the organization have got 2 points of strength, the first one is its entry to the depth of regime forces’ controlled areas and controlling a city about 100 km away from the nearest area controlled by the organization in Homs Desert, and the second is the failure of the regime forces to recover what they lost until now, and the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights monitored a massive and violent attack carried out by the “Islamic State” organization in late September 2017 and it was led by the “Caliphate Army”, where the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights learned from reliable sources that the attacking army was led by leaders of non-Syrian nationalities (Arab and foreign) accompanied by fighters, infiltrators and suicide bombers and many of them are of the Syrian Bedouin.