Affected by his wounds | Member of Osod Al-Sharqiyah militias die after landmine explosion
Deir Ezzor province: A member of the regime-backed Osod Al-Sharqiyah died affected by the wounds he sustained on February, due to the explosion of an old landmine in Kabajeb area in southern Deir Ezzor countryside.
On February 3, a member of the National Defence was killed and another member was injured due to the explosion of a landmine that was likely planted by ISIS cells, in Kabajib area on the road between Damascus and Deir Ezzor in the southern desert.
Areas held by the regime forces and its militias in the Syrian desert witnessed attacks by ISIS cells in the form of sneak attacks, ambushes, IED explosions and landmine explosions.
According to SOHR statistics, the number of fatalities in military operations in the Syrian desert since early 2023 has increased to 52; and they are as follows:
• Four ISIS members were killed in clashes with regime forces and Russian airstrikes on ISIS hideouts in the deserts of Homs, Al-Suwaidaa, Hama, Al-Raqqah, Deir Ezzor and Aleppo.
• 48 members of regime forces and their proxy militias, including 14 Iranian-backed Syrian and non-Syrian militiamen, were killed in 32 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.
In addition, 82 civilians, including a woman, were killed in attacks by ISIS in the Syrian desert.
Here is a regional distribution of ISIS attacks in 2023:
-Homs desert: 12 operations left 96 fatalities:
• 21 combatants, including three Iranian-backed militias.
• 77 civilians, including a woman.
• Homs: 12 operations left six combatants, including three Iranian-backed fighters, dead.
• Al-Raqqah: Six operations left 11 regime soldiers and three ISIS members dead.
• Deir Ezzor: 12 operations left 17 combatants, including 11 Iranian-backed militiamen, an ISIS member and a civilian dead.
• Hama: Two operations left three civilians dead.