Landmine explosion | Regime soldier killed and four others injured in eastern Homs countryside

SOHR activists have documented the death of a regime soldier and the severe injury of four others, due to the explosion of a landmine planted by ISIS cells in Sad Awarid (Awarid Dam) area in Palmyra desert in eastern Homs countryside. The injured soldiers were transported to Homs Military Hospital to receive proper medication.

According to SOHR statistics, the number of fatalities in military operations in the Syrian desert since early 2022 has increased to 291; and they are as follows:

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

• 155 soldiers of regime forces and their proxy militias were killed in 57 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.