Explosion of landmine planted earlier by the Islamic State killed and injured five Syrian soldiers in Al-Mayadeen desert

Explosion of landmine planted earlier by ISIS kills and injures five regime soldiers in Al-Mayadeen desert, east of Deir Ezzor.

SOHR activists have documented the death of three regime soldiers and the injury of two others by the explosion of a landmine planted earlier by ISIS in a convoy of regime forces while it was heading from Hamimah area to Faydah Ibn Muwayn in Al-Mayadeen desert in the eastern countryside of Deir Ezzor.

According to SOHR statistics, the number of fatalities in military operations in the Syrian desert since early 2022 has increased to 198; and they are as follows:

• 104 ISIS members were killed in Russian airstrikes on ISIS hideouts in the deserts of Homs, Al-Suwaidaa, Hama, Al-Raqqah, Deir Ezzor, and Aleppo.

• 94 soldiers of regime forces and their proxy militias were killed in 35 operations by ISIS members, including ambushes, armed attacks, and explosions, in western Euphrates and the deserts of Deir Ezzor, Al-Raqqah, Homs, Al-Suwaidaa, Hama and Aleppo.

Source: SOHR