ISIS leaves casualties among Iranian militias in Syria’s Deir ez-Zor
DEIR EZ-ZOR, Syria (North Press) – On Tuesday, four members were killed and 13 others were wounded in an attack of ISIS on an Iranian-backed militias’ military point in the countryside of Abu Kamal on the Syrian-Iraqi border.
“Four Syrian members were killed and 13 others were wounded, most of them were in critical conditions, due to the ISIS attack on the military point of the Hashemiyoun faction at the entrance to the town of al-Salihiyah, west of Abu Kamal,” said a military source of the pro-Iranian Hashemyoun faction.
“The clash lasted for more than an hour, after which the attacking gunmen withdrew towards the desert with mechanisms equipped with machine guns, after killing members and wounding others, and seizing quantities of weapons and ammunition from the point,” he told North Press.
Most of the members of the Hashemyoun faction of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), who are Syrians, come from the towns of al-Merei’ayah, al-Sayyad, al-Suway’iya and others in the eastern countryside of Deir ez-Zor.
Following the attack, the IRGC brought in a number of members of the factions to comb the vicinity of the point, and transfer the injured to the military hospital in the city of al-Mayadin, according to the source.
The pro-Iranian militias deploy in the eastern countryside of Deir ez-Zor, and they are active in that area, where their headquarters are, while ISIS sleeper cells carry out their attacks from the nearby desert.