22 people were killed in 3 ISIS attacks in the Syrian Desert
Traces of clashes in one of the strongholds of "ISIS" in Syria, before the announcement of the organization's elimination.
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Yesterday, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights reported that 22 people were killed in three attacks carried out by the terrorist organization “ISIS” in the Syrian Badia, within 24 hours, in areas under the control of the Syrian forces.
He pointed to the implementation of three attacks targeting a military site of the Syrian forces in the Palmyra desert, and an oil field in Deir ez-Zor, in addition to the mines planted by the organization's cells, targeting a number of national defense personnel in the Rusafa desert, south of Raqqa, and pointed out that these attacks resulted in the death of 22 people.
The Observatory stated that at least 3,825 people were killed in Syria in 2022, the lowest annual toll since the outbreak of the Syrian conflict nearly 12 years ago.
At the end of 2021, the Observatory reported the lowest death toll, with more than 3,700 dead, but it later documented the names of other dead people who fell in the same year, raising the death toll to 3,882 dead.
The Observatory reported that the outcome of 2022 includes 1,627 civilians, including 321 children, noting that among the civilian deaths, 209 people, half of them children, died as a result of mines and explosive remnants of war.
The year 2014 recorded the highest annual toll of the conflict, as the Observatory documented the killing of about 111,000 people.
The intensity of the battles has gradually decreased over the past two years in several areas, especially in the Idlib governorate (northwest), in which a ceasefire has been in effect since March 2020, according to a Turkish-Russian agreement.
Since the announcement of the elimination of the terrorist organization “ISIS” in Syria in 2019, the organization’s fighters, who have retreated mainly to remote areas in the Badia, have launched operations targeting especially Kurdish fighters and forces affiliated with the Syrian army, and large areas that include agricultural plains and oil and gas wells are still outside the government’s control. Most notably, the Kurdish-controlled areas (northeast), and areas in and around Idlib.
In addition, the Russian Foreign Ministry said yesterday that Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov discussed the situation in Syria with his Turkish counterpart, Mevlut Cavusoglu, during a phone call between them, while Turkish Defense Minister Hulusi Akar revealed the most important things that the Turkish side emphasized in the last meeting. The meeting was held between the defense ministers of Syria and Turkey in Moscow for the first time in 11 years. The Turkish newspaper Sabah quoted Akar as saying: “We affirmed in the meeting that we support Syria's territorial integrity and sovereignty, and our only goal is to fight terrorism.
And we noticed that a third of Syria is controlled by terrorist groups.”
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