The Syrian Observatory For Human Rights

IED explosion | Two regime soldiers killed on Palmyra highway east of Homs

Homs province: SOHR activists have documented the death of two regime soldiers, east of Homs.

According to SOHR activists, two regime soldiers were killed when an IED planted by unidentified persons, believed to be ISIS members, in a car carrying regime soldiers, exploded on the highway in Palmyra, east of Homs.

 

According to SOHR statistics, the number of fatalities in military operations in the Syrian desert since early 2022 has increased to 319; and they are as follows:

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

• 179 members of regime forces and their proxy militias, including 11 Iranian-backed Syrian and non-Syrian militiamen, were killed in 65 operations by ISIS members, including ambushes, armed attacks and explosions, in west Euphrates region and the deserts of Deir Ezzor, Al-Raqqah, Homs, Al-Suwaidaa, Hama and Aleppo.

• A civilian was killed in an attack by ISIS in the Syrian desert.