[NPASYRIA] On Friday, a leader in the Iranian-backed militias survived an liquidation attempt, after his car was attacked with machineguns in the Abu Kamal desert in the eastern countryside of Deir ez-Zor, eastern Syria.A military source from the Iranian-backed Liwa Hashemiyoun
| ...the Afghan Shiite militia stood up by Iran with Hazera volunteers in 2014 to fight ISIS and otherwise support the Bashir al Assad government... |
The leader left his car, hiding among the civilian houses, before the attackers targeted the car again with an RPG shell, which completely destroyed his car.
Al-Sultan, who is Iraqi, has a bad reputation in the region, and he is accused of imposing royalties on civilians, according to the source.
Iranian-backed militia announced on May 31 launching a combing campaign of the eastern and southern countryside of Deir ez-Zor Governorate, to pursue 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) sleeper cells.
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 ISIS sleeper cells and bad boys.