Death toll update | Six regime soldiers kil-led in an IS-IS attack on military position

SOHR activists have documented the death of six people including five regime soldiers and a member of the National Defence, where they were killed in the attack by ISIS cells on a regime’s military position in Palmyra desert.

Earlier today, SOHR activists reported that a member of the “National Defence” was killed yesterday by ISIS cells when a regime military outpost in Palmyra desert.
This came in light of the escalating intensity of ISIS operations within areas controlled by regime forces and their proxy militias in the Syrian desert.

According to SOHR statistics, the number of fatalities in military operations in the Syrian desert since early 2022 has increased to 448; 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.
• 270 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.