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The Syrian city of Homs is experiencing a state of great public anger and at the same time a “mourning”, after the ambush of dozens of fighters of the “Fourth Division” in the Badia of Deir Ezzor governorate, who killed dozens of them and seriously injured others, while ambulance crews are still working on them transferred to Al-Mujtahid and Al-Ahly hospitals, media sources told Al-Hurra.
In the details of the ambush, three “Pullman” buses were attacked, at 4:00 pm on Wednesday afternoon, which the Assad regime described as “terrorist”, in the area known as Shula Badia in the Deir Ezzor camp in eastern Syria, amid indications that ISIS-affiliated cells were on their feet. Behind the operation.
The attack, according to the Assad regime’s version, resulted in the death of 25 people and injuries to others. However, the sources that the “Al-Hurra” website spoke to in the city of Homs confirmed that the death toll was more than 30 people, and most of them were members of the “Fourth Division”, which it is considered the most prominent formations of Assad’s forces. .
Sources indicated that the pro-regime neighborhoods in Homs declared “mourning” in the last hours, with the arrival of the bodies of the dead, and indicated a state of “great anger” over the fact that the Syrian regime did not recognize the identity of the dead, and their insistence on mentioning the name “pueblo” instead of specifying their exact identity. As official members of your forces.
The aforementioned attack incident comes two days after an ambush similar to the one that elements of the “Republican Guard” were subjected to in Shula Badia in the Deir Ezzor camp, which caused the death and injury of more than 30 members, in strikes growing numbers, of which ISIS adopted most through its media that are still active via Telegram.
Authenticated by name
Al-Hurra was able to document the names of some of the ambush victims, including: Lieutenant Muhammad Munir al-Tawil, Lieutenant Muhammad Abdel Aziz, Shaaban Abdel Aziz (leader of the group), Muhammad Shaaban Abdel Aziz, Hussam Mualla, Salah Ezz al-Din Yunus, Lieutenant Sharaf Adel Taiba.
In addition to Lieutenant Sharaf Yazan al-Khalil, Lieutenant Nour al-Din al-Hasan, Wasim Suleiman al-Zulikh, Yusef al-Ahmad, Lieutenant Yusha al-Ali, Lieutenant Salmon Nassif, Ali Brabu, leader of the group and nicknamed “Abu Rasha”.
Most of the dead came from loyalist neighborhoods in Homs city, including Al-Muhajireen, Al-Zahra, Wadi Al-Dhahab and Al-Sabeel neighborhoods.
The “Syrian Observatory for Human Rights” had indicated that the new attack increases the number of deaths of the regime, during the period between March 24, 2019 and until today, when it reached 1,214 deaths of the regime and loyal militants of Syrian nationalities and non-Syrian, including two of the Russians, at least, in addition to the 145 militias loyal to Iran of non-Syrian nationalities.
On the other hand, the official agency “SANA” said: “In some areas of Badia, the terrorist cells are remnants of the terrorist organization ISIS”, and affirmed that the elements present at the al-Tanf border base provided them with support.
“war of attrition”
The Syrian region of Badia has become the main base from which ISIS cells attack, more than a year after the United States announced the total elimination of its influence, after controlling its last strongholds in the Al-Baghouz area. in the countryside of the Syrian city of Deir Ezzor.
The area of the Syrian Badia is about 80 thousand square kilometers and is distributed in the governorates: Deir Ezzor, Raqqa, Aleppo, Hama, Homs, rural Damascus and Sweida. According to observers, the activity of the ISIS cells in Badia is framed in a radically different strategy from their previous strategies in Combat, especially in terms of fighter mobility or specific targeting methods.
For months, Russia and Assad’s forces have been involved in undeclared military operations in Syria Badia, involving fighter jets, especially in the Badia parts of Hama and Homs, after escalating attacks that have hampered the movement. of civilians and military personnel on the roads that connect from southern Syria to the north in Aleppo governorate.
In a previous interview with Al-Hurra, a researcher on jihadist group affairs, Hassan Abu Haniyeh, said that ISIS cells are currently applying “deadly tactics” through ambushes, assassinations and some improvised explosive devices, regardless of the use of previous tactics.
Looking at the beginning of 2020 and up to now, the researcher adds: “There is a high pace of organizational operations, which is calculated and not random, so observers expect there to be more growth as the region remains as it is in terms of security tension, and the absence of opportunities for political openness. “
