ISIS most violent attack in 2023 | Fatalities among regime forces in attack on military bus in Deir Ezzor desert jumps to 26

As more fatalities were documented in ISIS most violent attack in 2023 in the Syrian desert, which targeted at least one regime military bus on Homs-Deir Ezzor highway in Al-Mayadeen desert in the eastern countryside of Deir Ezzor this early morning, SOHR activists have confirmed the death of 26 regime soldiers.

 

The number of fatalities is expected to rise further, as the attack left 11 other soldiers injured, some seriously, while tens others have been gone missing.

 

According to SOHR statistics, the number of fatalities in military operations in the Syrian desert since early 2023 has increased to 405; and they are as follows:

 

• 20 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.

 

• 228 members of regime forces and their proxy militias, including 37 Iranian-backed Syrian and non-Syrian militiamen, were killed in 106 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.

 

• 157 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: 35 operations left 160 fatalities:

 

• 67 combatants, including 12 Iranian-backed militias.

 

• 88 civilians, including a woman.

 

• Five ISIS members.

 

-Al-Raqqah desert: 11 operations left 33 fatalities:

 

• 29 combatants.

 

• Three ISIS members.

 

• One civilian.

 

-Deir Ezzor desert: 42 operations which left 118 fatalities:

 

• 95 combatants, including 20 Iranian-backed militias.

 

• Seven ISIS members.

 

• 16 civilian.

 

-Hama desert: 15 operations which left 87 fatalities:

 

• 49 civilians.

 

• 34 combatants, including five Iranian-backed militiamen.

 

• Five ISIS members.

 

-Aleppo desert: Three operations left three combatants, including two members of the 25^th Division, and three civilians dead.