Deir Ezzor | Two Iranian-backed militiamen ki-lled in IS*IS attack on their vehicle

Deir Ezzor province: Two Iranian-backed militiamen were killed in an attack by gunmen, believed to be affiliated with ISIS cells, on a military vehicle of Iranian-backed militiamen in the vicinity of Al-Tabni town in the western countryside of Deir Ezzor.

According to SOHR statistics, the number of fatalities in military operations in the Syrian desert since early 2022 has increased to 266; and they are as follows:

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

• 214 members of regime forces and their proxy militias, including 19 Iranian-backed Syrian and non-Syrian militiamen, were killed in 84 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.

• Four civilians were killed in attacks by ISIS in the Syrian desert.