Syrian soldier killed by landmine explosion east of Homs

SOHR activists have documented the death of a regime soldier when a landmine planted earlier by ISIS exploded in Al-Bayarat Al-Gharbyah, eastern Homs countryside.

On May 12, SOHR activists documented the death of a regime soldier and the injury of two others in an explosion of a landmine planted earlier by ISIS in Jabal Al-Balaa’s area near Selmiyah city in the south-eastern Hama in the Syrian desert along the road between Uqayribat town and Palmyra city.

According to SOHR statistics, the number of fatalities in military operations in the Syrian desert since early 2022 has increased to 201; 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.

• 97 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