SOHR: 11 People Were Killed In An ISIS Attack In Central Syria

10 civilians and a member of the Syrian forces were killed in an attack launched by the terrorist organization “ISIS” in central Syria, according to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, yesterday.

The Observatory stated that the organization attacked about 75 people, the day before yesterday, while they were working to collect truffles in the Palmyra area in the eastern countryside of Homs, killing 10 civilians, including a woman, in addition to a member of the Syrian forces, while the others are still missing. The official Syrian News Agency (SANA), for its part, reported the attack, saying that the organization’s members attacked the residents with machine guns.

Since the announcement of the elimination of “ISIS” in 2019 and the loss of all areas of its control, the terrorist organization has retreated to the Syrian desert, which extends between the governorates of Homs (central) and Deir ez-Zor (east) at the border with Iraq, where its fighters are entrenched in mountainous areas.

The organization is taking advantage – according to the observatory – of the residents of remote rural areas in central Syria, in order to collect truffles in preparation for selling them in order to launch attacks against them.

In April 2021, the terrorist organization kidnapped 19 people, most of them civilians, in a similar attack it launched in the eastern countryside of Hama.

During the truffle-gathering season, civilians often face another danger represented by mines planted by the organization in vast desert areas that were under the control of the terrorist organization before it was expelled from it.

From time to time, the terrorist organization’s fighters launch attacks in the desert, targeting mainly Kurdish fighters and the Syrian forces. Syrian and Russian helicopters launch strikes targeting the organization’s movements and positions in the desert.