ISIS kills Iranian-backed leader in in Syria’s east
AL-SUKHNA, Syria (North Press) – On Friday, a leader of Iranian-backed faction was killed and three others were wounded as a result of an armed attack by Islamic State (ISIS) militants in the desert of al-Sukhna, east Syria.
The 36-year-old Muhammad al-Sayyed, a leader of the Iranian-backed Liwa al-Quds, was killed in an armed clash with militants of ISIS that attacked their headquarters in the middle of al-Sukhna desert, while three others, who were accompanying him, were wounded, a military source of Liwa al-Quds said.
The ISIS militants, who were riding motorbikes, intensively fired at the headquarters raising a clash between the two parties that lasted for an hour and a half before they manage to ran away towards the depth of the desert, the source told North Press on the condition of anonymity.
Al-Sayyed, who hails from Furqlus in the countryside of Homs, is a regimental command of Liwa al-Quds.
Iranian-backed factions run broad-scale swaths in the Syria’s eastern Badia, which has recently witnessed several fierce clashes with ISIS.
On October 18, two ISIS militants and three militants of the Iranian-backed Liwa Abu al-Fadhal al-Abbas were killed as a result of an armed clash between the two parties in the town of al-Sayyal, west of al-Bukamal, east Syria.
The Iranian-backed militias have controlled the eastern countryside of Deir ez-Zor, since the expulsion of ISIS, in early 2017.