Palmyra desert | National Defence member Ki-lled in attack by IS*IS on regime military outpost

A member of the “National Defence” was killed yesterday by ISIS cells when a regime military outpost in Palmyra desert.

This comes in light of the escalating intensity of ISIS operations within areas controlled by regime forces and their proxy militias in the Syrian desert.

This morning, three members of the regime’s “National defence,” one of whom was a “minor,” from Rastan city in the countryside of Homs, were killed by a landmine explosion during combing operations in search of ISIS cells in Al-Rusafah desert in Al-Raqqah countryside.

 

According to SOHR statistics, the number of fatalities in military operations in the Syrian desert since early 2022 has increased to 443; 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.

• 265 members of regime forces and their proxy militias, including 27 Iranian-backed Syrian and non-Syrian militiamen, were killed in 104 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.