ISIS ambush | Casualties among regime soldiers near Al-Dumayr military airport

SOHR activists have documented the death and injury of several regime soldiers in an ambush by ISIS cells targeting a regime’s military convoy comprising cars and busses, eastern of Al-Dumayr military airport, where ISIS cells used IEDs and individual weapons.

Earlier today, SOHR activists documented the killing of two regime soldiers and the injury of three others. The injury soldiers had been taken to Deir Ezzor Military hospital, in a new attack by ISIS cells on a regime military position, in the same area where a military bus of the regime forces was targeted by ISIS cells yesterday, killing 15 regime soldiers and wounding others.

Yesterday, SOHR activists monitored a new attack waged against regime forces in light of the ongoing operations of ISIS cells in the desert. ISIS cells attacked a military bus in Jabal Al-Bashari area in Al-Raqqah desert.

This attack left a large number of deaths and injuries. At least 15 regime soldiers were killed, and the death toll is believed to rise as there are some people seriously injured.

According to SOHR statistics, the number of fatalities in military operations in the Syrian desert since early 2022 has increased to 243; and they are as follows:

• 112 ISIS members were killed in Russian airstrikes on ISIS hideouts in the deserts of Homs, Al-Suwaidaa, Hama, Al-Raqqah, Deir Ezzor, and Aleppo.

• 130 soldiers of regime forces and their proxy militias were killed in 44 operations by ISIS members, including ambushes, armed attacks, and explosions, in western Euphrates and the deserts of Deir Ezzor, Al-Raqqah, Homs, Al-Suwaidaa, Hama and Aleppo.