Military build-up | Regime forces bring in military reinforcement to Atharya-Khanaser highway in light of ISIS escalating ambushes

Syrian Observatory activists have monitored regime forces deploying large military reinforcement along Atharya-Khanaser highway in the eastern countryside of Hama in the wake of ISIS escalating operations in the region and the entire Syrian desert.

 

Yesterday, SOHR sources reported that uncertainty surrounded the fate of nearly 15 regime soldiers, after communication with them was lost on Friday during ISIS surprise attack on Al-Rahjan and Al-Shakouziyyah frontlines in eastern Hama. The missing regime soldiers were travelling in a bus which was found burned later, but the fate of the soldiers remained unknown whether ISIS killed or captured them.

 

Observatory sources have just reported a new attack by ISIS members on positions of regime forces and the Palestinian “Al-Quds Brigade” in the southern desert of Deir Ezzor. The attack left at least eight members of regime forces and “Al-Quds Brigade” dead, while 11 others sustained various injuries, some seriously.

 

ISIS members withdrew just after the attack, while regime forces and “Al-Quds Brigade” later brought in military reinforcement to the area and started a large-scale campaign, searching for ISIS cells.