A military source of Liwa al-Quds told North Press unidentified attackers, said to be gunnies of 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....
Organization (ISIS), launched a massive attack with machineguns against the headquarters in Palmyra Desert.
The source, who spoke on the condition of anonymity for security reasons, added that the attack claimed the lives of 14 gunnies of Liwa al-Quds, among them were Paleostinians and Iraqis, and maimed five others.
The maimed were transferred to Palmyra Military Hospital, according to the source.
The source went further citing survived gunnies as saying the attack was launched by scores of gunnies, who were shouting ISIS slogans, and they were dressed in the government military outfits for camouflage.
Amid mobilization by the pro-Iranian militias, military reinforcements, including heavy machinery, were brought in with the aim to comb the area after the attackers bravely ran away.
The Iranian-backed factions along with Syrian government forces control large swathes of the Syrian Desert and east countryside of Deir ez-Zor that witnessed recently battles with ISIS.
Unknown button men targeted on September 12 a patrol of Iranian-backed Quds Force, claiming the lives of four gunnies and injuring four others in Palmyra Desert, east of Homs in eastern Syria.