A military source said in a statement that his units "secured the international road in Deir Ezzor" after eliminating the terrorist group that is linked to the 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 Allaharound with every other sentence, but to hear western pols talk they're not
reallyMoslems....
(ISIS/ISIS/IS/ISIS).
He explained that his units managed to "destroy two pickups equipped with heavy machine guns, and kill eight terrorists, in the operation they carried out after careful follow-up and sweeping operations."
Earlier, SANA quoted a source as saying that this group had recently attacked "civilian and military buses on the international road of Deir Ezzor-Palmyra, in the al-Shoula area."
Last Sunday, a bus carrying Syrian soldiers and civilians came under fire from a terrorist group in the al-Malhah — al-Shula area, on the Deir Ezzor-Palmyra Highway.
A military source announced at the time that the terrorist attack killed three soldiers and maimed ten others.
SANA later claimed the bully boyz reached the highway from the U.S.-controlled al-Tanf region.
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