Government soldier killed in attack east of Syria’s Deir ez-Zor
DEIR EZ-ZOR, Syria (North Press) – A Syrian government soldier was killed on Friday after unidentified gunmen targeted a military headquarters in a town in east of Deir ez-Zor, a city east Syria.
A military source in the government forces in the town of al-Quriyah, 50km east of Deir ez-Zor, said that the unidentified gunmen targeted a military headquarters for the Air Force Intelligence on the outskirts of the town with machine guns.
The source, who spoke on condition of anonymity for security reasons, added to North Press that the attack killed the 29-year-old Abd al-Naser Doba, an Air Force Intelligence member from Safita, a town in western Syria.
The source weighs, based on what he heard from eyewitnesses, that the attackers were sleeper cells of the Islamic State Organization (ISIS), as they started chanting pro-ISIS chants after they fled towards the depth of the Syrian Desert.
The Iranian-backed militias and government forces control vast lands of the Syrian Desert and the eastern countryside of Deir ez-Zor, which lately has witnessed several battles between them and ISIS.
On May 31, two Iraqi members of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) were killed following an armed attack on their vehicle in Abu Kamal, a city located east of Deir ez-Zor on the Iraq-Syria border.