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Syria-Lebanon-Iran
Two government soldiers killed in eastern Deir ez-Zor
2023-01-16
[NPASYRIA] Two soldiers of the Syrian government forces were killed on Sunday after an IED went kaboom! with their vehicle in a town in the eastern countryside of Deir ez-Zor, eastern Syria.

A military source from the government 17th division told North Press, "An IED was planted in an unpaved road near an outpost of the government forces in al-Mayadin desert, 40km east of Deir ez-Zor city. It went kaboom! when a military vehicle carrying logistics for the 17th division passed over it."

The source, who spoke on condition of anonymity, said that the earth-shattering kaboom killed two soldiers from the 17th division, destroyed logistics and damaged the vehicle.

The government forces deployed troops at the blast site in a bid to search and find the perpetrators.

On January 8, a government officer was found dead days after he went missing the western desert of Deir ez-Zor.

These kind of attacks are usually carried out by sleeper cells of the Islamic State
...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that they were al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're really very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear western pols talk they're not really Moslems....
(ISIS), which continue to attack government forces in the Syrian Badia (desert) by planting IEDs and setting ambushes.
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