60 raids targeted ISIS deployment areas in Syrian Desert

On Friday evening, the Russian warplanes resumed its shelling on the Syrian Desert, after its absence from the airspace for 72 hours, without revealing further information why its shelling stopped.

The warplanes carried out more than 60 air strikes targeting the axes of the spread of ISIS mercenaries in the eastern Hama desert and other areas within the Aleppo-Hama-Raqqa triangle, in addition to the raids that hit the eastern Homs desert as well, killing 11 mercenaries and wounding others with varying wounds. According to what was reported by the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights.

This comes at a time when the areas of the Syrian Desert are witnessing an increased activity of ISIS sleeper cells, which launch attacks from time to time on the sites and points of the Damascus government forces.

In addition, the death toll from March 24, 2019 until now, has reached 1,353 government forces, among them (at least two Russians, in addition to 145 pro-Iranian groups), all of whom were killed during attacks, bombings and ambushes of ISIS mercenaries in the west of the Euphrates. The desert of Deir-ez-Zor, al-Raqqa, Homs and al-Sweida, while 809 ISIS militants were killed during the same period.

In addition, 4 civilians working in the gas fields and 11 shepherds, in addition to a female citizen, a girl and two men, were killed in ISIS attacks on the area.

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ANHA