Iran’s IRGC transfers militants, weapons outside Syria’s Deir ez-Zor
DEIR EZ-ZOR, Syria (North Press) – Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) transferred on Friday its militants and weapons from headquarters to outside of Deir ez-Zor Governorate, eastern Syria, using vehicles of the Syrian government forces.
A military source within the IRGC in Deir ez-Zor said five vehicles of the Division 17 affiliated with the government forces transferred non-Syrian IRGC militants, weapons and ammunition from its headquarters in the eastern and western countryside of Deir ez-Zor.
The source, who preferred to remain unnamed for security reasons, added that the IRGC evacuated a military post near al-Hamdan airbase in the countryside of Abu Kamal, a post in the al-Tamo Street in the city of al-Mayadin, eastern Deir ez-Zor, and transferred a number of militants from the several posts in the village of al-Masrab in western countryside of Deir ez-Zor.
The source noted that the destination is probably Damascus or Palmyra as the vehicles headed towards the Palmyra-Damascus international road. They also used the vehicles of the government forces for fear of being shelled.
The source however did not know the reason for the transfer of the militants, weapons and ammunition.
Early on Oct. 3, unidentified aircrafts launched intensive airstrikes on locations of Iranian-backed militias in Deir ez-Zor, leaving behind human casualties, according to a source in the IRGC.
From time to time posts and headquarters of Iranian-backed militias in Deir ez-Zor undergo shelling. Meanwhile Syrian state-run media outlets reported that Israel was responsible of the airstrikes in Deir ez-Zor.