Members of the Syrian regime forces and militias supported by Russia and Iran were killed and wounded on Thursday in an attack by Islamic State militants in the desert of Raqqa province, northeastern Syria, an informed source told Zaman al-Wasl.
At least 5 members of the regime forces and Russian-backed militias were killed or wounded following an attack on a newly established military point in the Rusafa desert in the southwestern countryside of Raqqa.
The source confirmed that Russian warplanes carried out eight air strikes following the attack, using high-explosive missiles, targeting caves and caves used by ISIS cells as their hideouts in the Rusafa desert.
Two days ago, the Syrian regime forces, in conjunction with the militias supported by Russia and Iran, began a massive sweeping campaign in the southwestern desert of Deir ez-Zor, after the “National Defense” militia, supported by Russia, found two members of the regime forces killed by shots to the head on the outskirts of the town of Kabajib. In the southwestern countryside of Deir ez-Zor.
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