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Unknown gunmen carry out two separate attacks in Syria’s Deir ez-Zor
[NPASyria] On Tuesday, a Syrian government officer was killed, and a leader of an Iranian-backed militia survived an liquidation attempt in two separate incidents in the eastern countryside of Deir ez-Zor, eastern Syria.

A military source from the Syrian government forces said person or persons unknown, riding a cycle of violence, attacked the residence of Sultan al-Malek, an officer in The 17th Reserve Division of government forces, on the outskirts of the town of al-Mayadin, eastern Deir ez-Zor.

The source told North Press that the assailants killed the officer in his house and then escaped to the desert according to eyewitnesses.

A military source in the Iranian-backed Liwa Abu al-Fadhal al-Abbas,
...also know as al-Abbas Brigade, a Shia Twelver militia formed in 2012 from Damascenes and Iraqi Shiite refugees to defend the Sayyidah Zaynab Mosque and other Shia holy sites in Syria against the anti-Assad rebels, then joined the Assad army’s fight against ISIS...
an Iranian-backed militia, said two unknown assailants, riding a cycle of violence, attacked the vehicle of the leader of Imam Ali Battalions,
...also known as Kata'ib al-Imam Ali, one of the groups in the Iraq’s Iran-controlled Popular Mobilization Forces. Since 2015 they’ve had a contingent helping Assad government forces against ISIS and other rebels...
known as "Ali al-Iraqiya" or "Ali al-Tayyab" in the town of Abu Kamal near the Syrian-Iraqi border.

Iranian-backed militias and the government forces control large areas of the Syrian Desert and the eastern countryside of Deir ez-Zor, which constitutes a source of concern as it witnesses intensive operations by Islamic State
...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that they were al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're really very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear western pols talk they're not really Moslems....
 (ISIS) sleeper cells.

The source told North Press that al-Tayyab heads the special forces of the Imam Ali Battalions. The vehicle’s driver managed to drive away from the road and escape from the button men into the Iraqi territories.
Posted by: trailing wife 2023-07-13
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