A military source from the government forces in the town of Abu Kamal, in the far eastern countryside of Deir ez-Zor, said unknown gunnies, riding a cycle of violence
, targeted a detachment of the government Military Security Branch on the outskirts of Abu Kamal with a machinegun.The source added the attack resulted in the killing of "Haydar Ali," who hails from the city of Homs, in central Syria, a guard in the detachment.
Since 2017, the Syrian government forces and Iranian-backed militias have been running vast swaths of the Syrian Desert and the eastern countryside of Deir ez-Zor, where 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 Allaharound with every other sentence, but to hear western pols talk they're not
reallyMoslems....
(ISIS) is active and increases practices that have caused the forces massive human and material losses.
Two days ago, the same detachment was also attacked with a machinegun, but losses were limited to only material losses.