Near Iranian-backed militias’ posts | “IS-IS” cells ki*ll three “truffle” pickers and kid*nap more than 25 others in Aleppo countryside

Aleppo province: A group of gunmen, who are likely to belong to “ISIS” cells, attacked “truffle” pickers in Khanaser desert in the south-eastern countryside of Aleppo near the posts of Iranian-backed militias, where they slaughtered three young men and kidnapped at least 26, including women, and took them to unknown destination. It is noted that the three killed men were from Al-Safirah area in Aleppo countryside.

 

According to SOHR statistics, the number of fatalities in military operations in the Syrian desert since early 2023 has increased to 59; 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.

 

• 55 members of regime forces and their proxy militias, including 14 Iranian-backed Syrian and non-Syrian militiamen, were killed in 40 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, 94 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: 13 operations left 98 fatalities:

 

• 22 combatants, including three Iranian-backed militias.

 

• 77 civilians, including a woman.

 

-Al-Raqqah desert: Seven operations left 11 regime soldiers, three ISIS members and one civilian dead.

 

-Deir Ezzor desert: 14 operations which left 22 fatalities:

 

• 21 combatants, including 11 Iranian-backed militias.

 

• One ISIS member.

 

• One civilian.

 

-Hama desert: Five operations left 12 civilians and one member of “national Defence” dead.

 

-Aleppo desert: One operation left three civilians dead.