The provincial police headquarters reported that the radicals, with automatic weapons, opened fire on herdsmen and stole more than a thousand sheep. After the jihadists fled to their hideouts and caves located deep in the desert.

At least, another three civilians were killed yesterday by the explosion of a mine planted by Daesh radicals in a residential neighborhood in the city of Deir Ezzor, head of the eponymous Syrian province.

Terrorist activities have caused nearly 100 civilians deaths in the last two weeks as a result of attacks or mines planted by those extremist groups.

The attacks of the Islamic State in the Al-Badieh desert are on the rise, and its members receive logistical support, protection and intelligence information from the US armed forces in the Tanef area, in eastern Syria, as Damascus has denounced multiple times.

According to analysts, since its defeat in 2018, Daesh has resorted to gang warfare and its attacks are based on clear intelligence instructions targetted to wear down Syrian troops and their allies.

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