Two Liwa al-Quds militants were killed in an ambush by Daesh in the Badia desert, the second ambush of its kind in four days targeting pro-Syrian regime Palestinian militia in eastern Syria, sources said Friday.
The attack took place in the Kabajeb desert area east of Deir Ezzor province.
On Monday, three militants operating in Liwa al-Quds were also killed in Daesh ambush near al-Sukhna town in the eastern countryside of Homs city.
Sources said that Russia has retaliated by conducting 26 airstrikes on ISIS pockets in the Kabajeb Badia and Mount al-Bashri south of Deir Ezzor city, also on the Rusafa desert west of Raqqa city.
Opposition factions and hardline groups have killed more than 220,000 pro-regime forces since the armed conflict erupted nine years ago, according to local monitoring groups.
Russia has gripped its power on most regime-held areas since 2015, taking presence in the vast Badia desert where the Islamic State militants are still controlling pockets through Homs province and eastwards to the Iraqi border, and continue to carry out deadly attacks against regime forces and allied Iranian militias.
Last week, Daesh militants attacked regime forces in the village of Al-Saan in Hama province, before kidnapping eight policemen and 11 civilians from a small village, state-run news agency SANA said.
In relevant development, Zaman al-Wasl has learned that the Russian forces are preparing to set up a permanent military base near the historic city of Palmyra in the middle of the Syrian desert.
The new bastion will be equipped in Mont al-Mazar, or Jabal al-Mazar, about 13 kilometers north of Palmyra, sources said.
Daesh fighters have ramped up their attacks in the past months against regime forces in the vast desert that stretches across central Syria to the eastern border with Iraq.
Daesh overran large swathes of Syria and neighbouring Iraq in 2014.
They were expelled from their last patch of territory in eastern Syria in March 2019, but have retained a presence in the vast Badia desert.
Zaman Al Wasl
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