Unknown gunmen attack IRGC in Syria’s Desert
DEIR EZ-ZOR, Syria (North Press) – An attack on a patrol of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) in the city of Palmyra, in the Syrian Desert, caused material and logistical losses to the patrol on Sunday.
A military source from the IRGC told North Press that unknown gunmen targeted their patrol with machine guns at the entrance to the city of Palmyra.
The targeting resulted in the burning of a car carrying logistical materials and another carrying fuel, while the militants fled to a nearby base on the outskirts of Palmyra, the source added.
The patrol consisted of two four-wheel drive vehicles and two small pickup trucks carrying logistical materials and fuel, and were headed to IRGC posts in the Palmyra desert.
The Iranian-backed militias and Syrian government forces control vast swathes of the Syrian Desert and the eastern countryside of Deir ez-Zor, which witness increasing activity by Islamic State (ISIS) sleeper cells and militants.
Since 2017, the Syrian government forces have been scouring the desert in response to ISIS increasing practices that have caused the forces massive human and material losses.