IED attack | several regime soldiers injured in Syrian desert

SOHR activists have reported that unidentified persons, believed to be ISIS cells, exploded an IED in the strategic Jabal Al-Bishri, located on the administrative border between the two deserts of Deir Ezzor and Al-Raqqah, injuring several members of the the17th Division of regime forces.

According to SOHR statistics, the number of fatalities in military operations in the Syrian desert since early 2022 has increased to 331; and they are as follows:

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

• 186 members of regime forces and their proxy militias, including 13 Iranian-backed Syrian and non-Syrian militiamen, were killed in 73 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.