A source of the government forces in Deir ez-Zor told North Press that four soldiers of Division 17, affiliated with the government forces, were maimed while scouring Deir ez-Zor countryside.
The source said that following the incident, the maimed soldiers were transferred to the city hospital in Deir ez-Zor, and they are in "serious condition".
"Soldiers who participated in the scouring campaign left their weapons and run away, fearing landmines and 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) attacks, the source pointed out.
On August 11, ISIS grabbed credit for an attack against buses of the government forces in the countryside of the town of al-Mayadin, east of Deir ez-Zor. The attack killed 40 Syrian soldiers and maimed more than 10 others.
The Syrian Desert covers nearly half of the area of Syria, and is distributed over the governorates of Deir ez-Zor, Raqqa, Aleppo, Homs, Hama, Rif Dimashq, Suwayda and Palmyra.
Iranian-backed militias and the government forces control large areas of the Syrian Desert and the eastern countryside of Deir ez-Zor, which constitutes a source of concern as it witnesses intensive operations by the ISIS sleeper cells.
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