The Syrian Observatory For Human Rights

In hours | Ten regime and National Defence members kil-led in attacks and ambushes

Two officers, one ranked major and the other ranked lieutenant, were killed in an attack by ISIS on a car they were in in Homs.

Yesterday, two members of the National Defence were killed, when their military vehicle was targeted by an IED explosion in an ambush by unidentified gunmen likely to be ISIS cells, on the road of T2 Station, which is known as the “Company Road”, in Al-Bo Kamal desert.

Six National Defence members were killed, and three others were injured by a landmine explosion during the demining training course on the outskirts of Al-Bokamal in Deir Ezzor countryside.
According to SOHR statistics, the number of fatalities in military operations in the Syrian desert since early 2022 has increased to 415; and they are as follows:

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

• 258 members of regime forces and their proxy militias, including 27 Iranian-backed Syrian and non-Syrian militiamen, were killed in 96 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.

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