BREAKING: ISIS attack, Five regime soldiers killed and wound, while Russian jets launch counterattack in Al-Raqqa desert

Report from the Syrian Observatory for Human Right (SOHR):  While several Russian fighter jets have been consecutively struck ISIS hideouts and caves in Al- Rusafa desert in Al-Raqqa countryside since the early hours of Thursday morning.

ISIS members carried out a new ambush in the Syrian desert, targeting a regime forces’ military convoy of consisting of several vehicles, within the administrative boundary between eastern Homs desert and eastern Deir Ezzor desert, in oil pumping stations ”T2, T3” areas, SOHR activists said.

ISIS ambush killed nine regime soldiers, Fifth Corps, and other militias and wounded 15 others.

Since 24th of March 2019, SOHR has documented the killing of at least 1628 regime soldiers and loyalists of Syrian and non-Syrian nationalities, including at least three Russians, and 165 Iranian-backed militiamen of non-Syrian nationalities. All were killed in attacks, bombings, and ambushes by the “Islamic State”, west of Euphrates in the deserts of Deir Ezzor, Al-Raqqah, Homs, Al-Suwaidaa, Hama and Aleppo.

Also, four civilians working in gas fields, tens of shepherds, and other civilians were killed and documented by SOHR in the same period, from late March 2019 until today. They were killed in attacks by ISIS cells. While 1,117 ISIS members were also killed in attacks and bombardments in the same period.