SDF dismantles IED north of Syria’s Deir ez-Zor
DEIR EZ-ZOR, Syria (North Press) – On Sunday, a military engineering team of the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) dismantled an improvised explosive device (IED) intended to explode in a town north of Deir ez-Zor, east Syria.
A military source of the SDF in the town of al-Azba, 20 kilometers north of Deir ez-Zor, told North Press residents informed a patrol of the SDF that an IED was placed nearby a money transfer office in the center of a market in the town.
The military engineering team, immediately, cordoned the area and dismantled the IED, which weighs more than 10 kilograms, according to the military source.
Although the SDF launches intensive security operations, the countryside of Deir ez-Zor has recently witnessed an increase in killing incidents carried out against SDF members, employees of the Autonomous Administration, tribal figures and civil residents.
The SDF keeps pursuing ISIS sleeper cells in Deir ez-Zor eastern countryside with the aim to maintain security and stability of the region.
On Sunday, an SDF military checkpoint in the town of al-Wahid in the northern countryside of Deir ez-Zor was subjected to an attack with machineguns, reporting no casualties among the SDF fighters.
On May 2, two SDF fighters were wounded in an IED blast in the town of al-Sajir, north of Deir ez-Zor.