ISIS resurgence | Five members of Liwaa Al-Quds killed and wounded in attack in Homs desert

Homs province: Three members of Liwaa Al-Quds were killed and two others were injured, when ISIS cells ambushed their military vehicle near Jahar junction on Homs-Palmyra highway. The injured members were taken to Palmyra national hospital.

 

According to SOHR statistics, the number of fatalities in military operations in the Syrian desert since early 2024 has increased to 256; and they are as follows:

 

• 24 ISIS members were killed by regime forces and their proxy militias.

 

• 195 members of regime forces and their proxy militias, including 25 Iranian-backed Syrian militiamen, were killed in 97 operations by ISIS members, including ambushes, armed attacks, and explosions, in west Euphrates region and the deserts of Deir Ezzor, Al-Raqqah, Homs.

 

• 37 civilians, including a child and a woman, were killed in attacks by ISIS in the Syrian desert.

 

Here is a regional distribution of ISIS attacks:

 

-Deir Ezzor desert: 34 operations left 83 fatalities:

 

• 60 combatants, including seven Iranian-backed militiamen.

 

• Five ISIS members.

 

• 18 civilians, including 17 truffle pickers, among them there was a woman.

 

-Homs desert: 45 operations left 103 fatalities:

 

• 77 combatants, including eight Iranian-backed militiamen.

 

• 16 ISIS members.

 

• Ten civilians, including two truffle pickers.

 

-Al-Raqqah desert: 11 operations left 38 fatalities:

 

• 33 combatants, including two Iranian-backed militiamen.

 

• Three ISIS members.

 

• Two civilian truffle pickers.

 

-Hama desert: Six operations left 31 fatality:

 

• 24 combatant, including an Iranian-backed militiaman.

 

• Seven civilians, including a child.

 

-Aleppo: One operation left three Iranian-backed militiamen dead.