Syrian army forces on Thursday launched an operation against ISIL terrorists in desert and rural areas between Raqqa and Deir ez-Zor provinces.
Faraan: The Syrian army on Thursday launched an operation in the southeastern province of Raqqa against ISIL terrorist elements. Sputnik news agency reported that the Syrian army forces have launched a ground operation to clear desert and rural areas between Raqqa and Deir ez-Zor provinces (eastern Syria), citing field sources. The focus of this operation is the Jabal al-Bashari desert.
According to these sources, the Syrian army mobilized a large number of its infantry and launched the operation with air support from Syrian and Russian fighters. The strikes are mainly focused on the movement of ISIL elements in open areas and US-occupied areas in eastern Syria, especially on the Syrian-Iraqi-Jordanian border. With the start of these attacks, a large number of ISIL elements were killed and wounded. The 17th, 25th and 5th armored divisions are participating in this operation. The operation began in the al-Rasafa desert area of Raqqa.
In late June, ISIL elements attacked a Syrian army bus in the Raqqa Reef. The attack killed 13 Syrian soldiers and wounded two others. Also on June 12, terrorist elements attacked a passenger bus in the eastern Syrian province of Deir ez-Zor, killing three civilians and wounding more than 20 others. According to field sources, ISIL’s movements are due to the support of US terrorist forces; In a way, these elements are training ISIS terrorists in northeastern Syria. The U.S. military has begun intensive training to familiarize ISIL elements with RPGs and rocket-propelled grenades.
These trainings are for a group of ISIL elements who have been imprisoned by American elements in a prison in the south of al-Hasakah. The prison is located at the American base in the city of Al-Shadadi. According to local sources, US forces are also training ISIS elements to use anti-tank missiles in order to transport them to the Deir ez-Zor and Tadmor deserts soon, and then to attack Syrian army positions and government buildings and other homes. Start the military. Media reports in recent months indicate that the Americans have transferred hundreds of ISIS operatives from Iraq and al-Hasakah prisons around their illegal base in the al-Tanf area on the Syrian-Jordanian border.
