Landmine explosion | Five Iranian-backed non-Syrian militiamen killed and injured in Homs desert

SOHR sources have reported that three Iranian-backed non-Syrian militiamen were killed and two others were injured in the explosion of a landmine in their vehicle, while they were on a military mission yesterday in an area between Al-Koum village and Al-Sukhnah city in the eastern countryside of Homs. The fatalities were taken to Al-Sukhnah dispensary.

 

According to SOHR statistics, the number of fatalities in military operations in the Syrian desert since early 2023 has increased to 95; 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.

 

• 91 members of regime forces and their proxy militias, including 17 Iranian-backed Syrian and non-Syrian militiamen, were killed in 49 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, 105 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: 19 operations left 113 fatalities:

 

• 32 combatants, including six Iranian-backed militias.

 

• 81 civilians, including a woman.

 

-Al-Raqqah desert: Seven operations left 16 fatalities:

 

• 11 regime soldiers

 

• Three ISIS members.

 

• One civilian.

 

• An NDF member.

 

-Deir Ezzor desert: 17 operations which left 38 fatalities:

 

• 36 combatants, including 11 Iranian-backed militias.

 

• One ISIS member.

 

• One civilian.

 

-Hama desert: Six operations left 19 civilians and 12 combatants dead.

 

-Aleppo desert: One operation left three civilians dead.