IS*IS attack | 12 oil field workers ki*lled in attack on buses in Deir Ezzor

Deir Ezzor province: 12 workers were killed and others were injured in an attack carried out by ISIS cells. An IED was detonated and light and medium weapons were fired at buses for workers of Tim oil field in Deir Ezzor.

This comes in light of escalated attacks by ISIS cells in those areas.

According to SOHR statistics, the number of fatalities in military operations in the Syrian desert since early 2022 has increased to 442; and they are as follows:

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

• 264 members of regime forces and their proxy militias, including 27 Iranian-backed Syrian and non-Syrian militiamen, were killed in 103 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.

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