The Syrian Observatory For Human Rights

Planted by ISIS | Two Regime soldiers killed in landmine explosion in south Raqqa desert

Raqqa province: SOHR activists have reported that two regime officers were killed due to explosion of an old landmine planted earlier by ISIS during combing operations by regime soldiers and loyal militiamen, searching for ISIS hidden cells members in al-Rasafa desert south western Raqqa city.

 

Yesterday SOHR activists reported that an old landmine planted earlier by ISIS exploded in a vehicle commuting regime soldiers, during combing operations in Marigeeb al-Gomlan neighborhood in the countryside of Salmiyah city north western Hama province. The explosion killed two regime soldiers, and wounded thirteen others, some are in serious conditions.

 

Syrian Observatory for Human Rights activists documented new security operation by the regime and its proxies topped by National Defense, and the militias loyal to Russia under Russian-backed Palestinian “Liwaa al-Quds” in the desert extended between al-Mayadeen to Faydah Ibn Moyta’ near the eastern neighborhood of Deir Ezzor countryside in searching ISIS cells that have escalated activities in the past few days either in that region or other scattered areas in the Syrian desert in the countryside of Homs, Raqqa and Hama. The operation has been launched in the morning early hours with intensive airstrikes of the Russian warplanes that bombarded dozens of raids targeting caves that could be taken as hotbeds for ISIS fighters.

 

SOHR activists 4 days ago documented the death of 23 regime soldiers in different areas of the Syrian desert in the past 48 hours in ambushes and explosions of landmines planted by ISIS cells which are prevalent in east Homs desert and the deserts of Hama, al-Raqqah and Deir Ezzor. The regime’s fatalities included an officer of the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps and his escort who was Iranian, as unknown gunmen opened fire on them while they were traveling on the road between Palmyra and Deir Ezzor in central Syria.