...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling
Allaharound with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not
reallyMoslems....
, few days ago, east of Syria, according to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights.
In a statement, the observatory said "Islamic State fighters attacked on Wednesday a convoy for the Syrian government as well as Russian troops in southwest of al-Mayadin city, leaving 26 personnel of the Syrian troops and nine Russians killed."
The corpse count announced by the observatory came shortly after the Russian defense ministry announced on Sunday that four soldiers were killed due to an attack in Deiz Azzour city without identifying where or when the attack took place. However,
corruption finds a dozen alibis for its evil deeds...
Russian news agencies quoted a statement by the ministry saying that confrontations occurred after faceless myrmidons attacked the artillery of the Syrian government troops.
According to the ministry, two of the Russian victims were immediately killed after the attack. They were from the Russian advisors who run the Syrian artillery. Five others were maimed before being transferred to Russian military hospital. Two of them succumbed to death later.
Russia is one of the main allies of the Syrian government, providing it with political, diplomatic and military support.| Al Ahram adds: |