Desert battles in 48 hours | Nearly 50 regime soldiers and ISIS members killed in ongoing clashes and bombardment

As raging battles are still underway between ISIS and regime forces in the Syrian desert, exactly Aleppo-Hama-Al-Raqqah triangle, SOHR activists have documented the death of eight regime soldiers in fierce clashes in Al-Rasafa desert in southern Al-Raqqah.

 

Meanwhile, fierce battles erupted between regime forces and ISIS cells operating in the western desert of Deir Ezzor, leaving three regime soldiers dead.

 

The clashes coincide with ongoing and intensive Russian airstrikes on ISIS positions in the Syrian desert.

 

SOHR activists also documented the death of 17 ISIS members in the same battles.

 

Yesterday, Observatory activists monitored ongoing clashes in the Syrian desert between ISIS and regime forces, as clashes were concentrated in Aleppo-Hama-Al-Raqqah triangle. The clashes coincided with intensive airstrikes by Russian jets on the area. On the other hand, clashes between ISIS and regime forces also erupted in the desert of Al-Qaryatayn in the eastern countryside of Homs.

 

SOHR activists documented the death of seven ISIS members in the ongoing clashes and bombardment since yesterday, while 11 regime soldiers and loyalists were also killed in the same clashes.