Fatalities in new ISIS attack targeting truffle hunters in Syrian Badia

SOHR reported that, “today, ISIS mercenaries attacked a group of young men while they were searching for “truffles” in the Al-Midan area, north of the city of Palmyra in the eastern countryside of Homs, as a result 3 people were killed, while the mercenaries fled to an unknown destination.”

ISIS mercenaries have remarkably intensified their attacks, especially against “truffle” hunters in the Syrian desert.

The death toll within the Syrian Desert, according to the SOHR’s documentation, has reached 249 since the beginning of 2023. They are: 11 ISIS mercenaries were killed in clashes with the Damascus government forces and Russian air strikes, targeting areas where they hide in separate areas of the desert of Homs, As-Suwayda, Hama, Raqqa, Deir ez-Zor and Aleppo.

123 of the forces of the Damascus government and its affiliated groups were killed in 66 operations by ISIS in separate areas of the desert, which took place through ambushes, attacks and explosions in the desert of Deir Ezzor, Raqqa, Homs, As-Suwayda, Hama and Aleppo. In addition to killing 115 citizens.

Despite the intense air support by the Russian warplanes, the Damascus government forces and their loyalists have not yet been able to eliminate ISIS mercenaries in the desert.

Source » hawarnews