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ISIS fighters launched a new attack from their hideouts in the Homs desert on the Syrian Arab Army (SAA) positions in southern Deir Ezzor on June 23.
According to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (SOHR), four pro-government fighters were killed and ten others were injured in the attack, which targeted positions of the army and its allies near the city of al-Mayadin.
Such attacks have become a common occurrence around the Homs desert, which spreads between western Deir Ezzor and eastern Homs. Hundreds of the terrorist group’s fighters and commanders are reportedly hiding there.
The SAA has intensified its operations around the desert in an attempt to put an end to these attack. Earlier this week, the army uncovered a large hideout of ISIS cells in southern Deir Ezzor.
The ISIS threat in the Homs desert will likely remain until the SAA launches a large-scale military operation to clear the region. Such an operation is hardly possible now due to the high-tension around the northern governorate of Idlib.
Saw the headline and first thought, bet, it is another article from the SOHR.
What a surprise, right again and never bothered reading an article, sourced by such a biased organisation. Who funds them:
One thing is for sure. SAA and NDF should create better holding forces and have permanent action to clear the region of IS. Permanent aereal surveillance by drone, planes and satellites. Intelligence on the ground. SDF has driven IS into sleeper cells and is eliminating them. SAA should do too. At the moment they hold areas and can concentrate into larger forces.
SDF are traitors and must be treated like that. Kurds (USA-Israel puppets) has within its files ISIS members and they do what USA-Israel tell them to dom and to say.
You seem to mix up rebels that do contain many shaven IS members and SDF. SDF wants another Syria. A Syria that acceps the kurds as equel to arabs. Syriacs as equal to arabs. A Syria where the local heridatary tin pot dictator has to accrpt local autonomy for this overcentralised bureacracy, for the abandoned internal colonies.
exactly
Another mix up is that Raqqa is an arab city. Raqqa was old before anybody ever heard of arabs. That would make it an Syriac city. However, in the 19th century, Raqqa was refounded by kurds of the Milan tribe and they still lived in the city until IS expelled many thousands of them in 2016. Many have now returned and likely many expelled from Afrin, some 150 to 175k will not be able to return due to forced ethnic cleansing. In time, some of them will relocate to Raqqah.
Anything like that was many years ago and for all groups. You are told by me and others many times.
Go back to Your criminal robbergang and tell them that.
One more time we witness incompetence and erratic strategic behaviour by Syrian troops. That’s incredible as became easy meat for ISIS. Since 2017 when Syrian Army and allies stopped the ofensive was predicted huge casualties within government troops. Desertions, low moral, despair will harm any future operations against DAESH and Idlib jihadists. For worst, iranian militias are quiet and russian units are gathered in your own bases.
When the hell SAA will clean this area of ISIS cells ! That is incredible having so good Russia weapons thechnology and Russia air support.
We dont know if they are hundreds or what at all.
We know Assads systematicly overestimate the amount of enemies, and they are not able to sclean well, because of lack of troops for it.
But they are not alone in this long time cleaning. SDF has their problems too.
USA openly declared it was their vison to put any other Governess out in the big low populated covering the vakuum was correct, but could not make a succesfull FSA there.
I think I have some hopes for SDF at least cleabning their part.
But I still dont understand, why most of the yellow zone cant or wont take in civilians from Turkey.
Maybe they need to bring in the SDF if they can’t do the job.
How would you do it?
Reconcile with the SDF and let them take care of it. SAA is too busy in Idlib to deal with desert rats.