The Army eliminates terrorist group that attacked several buses on Deir-Ezzor, Palmyra road during the past few days

Deir Ezzor, (ST)  – The Syrian Arab Army operating in Deir al-Zor has eliminated the terrorist group, which had attacked several civilian and military buses during the previous days on the Deir Ezzor-Palmyra road in the Shula and Kabajab areas, resulting in the death and injury of a number of them.

An army commander told SANA in Deir Ezzor that, he military operation was carried at after combing Al-Badiya near the Deir Ezzor-Palmyra highway with the army observing the movements of terrorists between Shula and Kabajab areas.

He added that, the Syrian army targeted the terrorists killing nine of them and destroying their four wheel pickup equipped with a heavy machine gun.

A group of terrorists deployed in the Deir Ezzor desert attacked several times, buses and cars of civilians and soldiers during the current month, the last of which was, when a bus carrying soldiers on the Deir Ezzor-Palmyra road in the Al-Malhah-Shula region came under fire from the south of the road from a terrorist group, coming from the Al-Tanf area, which led to the death of three soldiers and the wounding of ten others.

These attacks have been repeated on transport buses on the Deir Ezzor road to Palmyra by terrorist groups coming from the US occupation forces’ control area in the Al-Tanf area, which provides protection and support to these terrorist organizations.

These attacks coincided with identical media reports that the US occupation forces transferring hundreds of ISIS terrorists from Iraq to the Syrian area of Al-Tanf to carry out offensive operations against members of the Syrian Arab Army and civilians in the Syrian desert.

Raghda Sawas