A military source from the IRGC told North Press that unknown button men targeted their patrol with machine guns at the entrance to the city of Palmyra.
The targeting resulted in the burning of a car carrying logistical materials and another carrying fuel, while the faceless myrmidons fled to a nearby base on the outskirts of Palmyra, the source added.
The patrol consisted of two four-wheel drive vehicles and two small pickup trucks carrying logistical materials and fuel, and were headed to IRGC posts in the Palmyra desert.
The Iranian-backed militias and Syrian government forces control vast swathes of the Syrian Desert and the eastern countryside of Deir ez-Zor, which witness increasing activity by 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) sleeper cells and bad boys.
Since 2017, the Syrian government forces have been scouring the desert in response to ISIS increasing practices that have caused the forces massive human and material losses.