The Russian-backed Syrian regime army has sent military reinforcements in the Badia desert in preparation for carrying out a massive sweeping operation against Islamic State's sleeping cells, local sources told Zaman al-Wasl
Forces from the 25th Special Tasks Division, the 5th Corps, the 5th Division, the 11th Division, supported by Russia, and the Republican Guard forces, were sent from the fronts of the Idlib countryside, which contained tanks, rocket launchers, field guns, and medium machine guns, towards the eastern countryside of Homs.
The sources confirmed that a military campaign is being planned by Russia, with the participation of the forces it supports, to comb the Sukhna and Palmyra deserts, after the killing of more than 70 members and officers from the Syrian regime forces and the militias supported by Russia and Iran, in addition to the wounding of more than 100 other members and officers, after the failure of the military campaign that It began at the beginning of June, against ISIS cells in the regime-held desert.
Islamic State fighters have killed nearly 4,100 people in Syria since 2019 when the jihadists lost their last stronghold in the country, a war monitor said on June 29.
IS overran large swathes of Syria and Iraq in 2014, proclaiming a so-called caliphate and launching a reign of terror in June of that year.
In March 2019, the jihadist group lost its last scraps of Syrian territory in a Kurdish-led military campaign backed by a US-led coalition, but remnants continue to launch deadly attacks from desert hideouts.
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