Reuters Ali Hashisho
The Syrian “SANA” agency reported that units of the army had destroyed a terrorist group that had attacked several civilian and military buses during the previous days on the Deir Ezzor-Palmyra road.
The agency indicated that a number of Syrian army members were killed and wounded in the operation.
One of the field commanders in the Syrian army told the agency: “The operation took place after combing the desert area adjacent to the international road of Deir Ezzor-Palmyra, where the movements of terrorist remnants between the Shula and Kabajab areas were explored, and the attacking forces targeted them to eliminate five terrorists and destroy them a four-wheel-drive vehicle equipped with a heavy machine gun.” .
SANA reported that a group of terrorists deployed in the Deir Ezzor desert attacked buses and cars of civilians and soldiers several times during the current month, the last of which was the day before yesterday, when a bus carrying soldiers on the Deir Ezzor-Palmyra road in the Al-Malhah-Shula region was fired Fire from south of the road from a terrorist group coming from the Al-Tanf area, killing three soldiers and wounding ten others.
She pointed out that “these attacks coincided with identical media reports about the American occupation forces transferring hundreds of ISIS terrorists from Iraq to the Syrian area of Al-Tanf to carry out offensive operations against members of the Syrian Arab Army and civilians in the Syrian desert.”
Source: “Sana”
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