...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) seized on Monday morning three oil tankers belonging to Syrian government forces in eastern Homs Governorate, central Syria.
A military source from the government forces in the eastern countryside of Homs stated that ISIS gunnies attacked three oil tanker trucks on the main road in the desert of Palmyra, central Syria. The trucks were leaving Palmyra and heading towards Homs.
The attackers who were carrying ISIS flag managed to seize the oil tanker trucks after the escape of two vehicles accompanying them, the source told North Press.
The government forces conducted patrols accompanied by helicopters in the desert at the aim of tracking the trucks. However,
it's easy to be generous with someone else's money...
all attempts were in vain, the source noted.
The Syrian Desert covers nearly half of the area of Syria and is distributed over the governorates of Deir ez-Zor, Raqqa, Aleppo, Homs, Hama, Rif Dimashq, Suwayda, and Palmyra.
The Iranian-backed militias and Syrian 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 ISIS sleeper cells.