Iraqi Hezbollah militants boosts positions in the Al-Mayadeen desert

Reliable SOHR sources have confirmed that the Iraqi Hezbollah militias boosted their posts once again and erected new soil and cement barriers near their positions in Al-Mayadeen desert in the eastern countryside of Deir Ezzor. These fortifications coincide with the increasing ISIS attacks on members and groups affiliated to the Iranian forces, Iranian-backed militias and regime forces.

On Tuesday, SOHR activists have documented the killing of an officer and the injury of three others of Russian soldiers in the explosion of an IED planted by unknown assailants, targeting a Russian convoy on a side road near Deir Ezzor city.

It is worth noting that the area is under the control of regime forces and Iranian militias, and it is the ISIS cells’ stronghold from which they launch attacks and ambushes targeting regime forces and Iranian-backed militias.

Reliable sources had informed the Syrian Observatory that a group of some 50 militiamen affiliated to the regime-backed “National Defence Forces” (NDF) were trapped in a mine field in Al-Mayadeen desert in the eastern countryside of Deir Ezzor.

According to SOHR sources, six members went missing a day earlier in the desert, so NDF sent a group of tens of members to search for the lost group, but they entered the mine field by mistake. The mine field was one of ISIS ambushes in the Syrian desert.

SOHR activists documented the killing of eight members due to the explosion of several landmines, while others sustained various injuries.

Source: SOHR