(Zaman Al Wasl)- At least 4 Intelligence members killed and 5 more wounded in clashes with the Islamic State in Syrian desert east of Homs province, field sources told Zaman al Wasl Thursday.
General Akram Mehrez, deputy head of Badia Intelligence brack in Homs was seriously injured as clashes took place near Sukhna town that fell to the regime control in August.
At least 179 regime soldiers killed last August by the Islamic State in Syrian desert, according to activists.
The Assad army and its allies made advances in the central Syrian desert, also known as badia since May. Such an advance left hundreds of troops and allied militants dead as the radical group showed fierce resistance, tackling on on its deadly suicide bombing attacks.
The army and its allies had taken a number of villages northeastern Homs province, encircling the Islamic State fighters to their west in an area of land around 8,000 km square, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said.
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