Three militants of the Russian-backed Palestinian Liwa al-Quds were killed on Friday in an ambush carried out by Islamic State in the Syrian desert, targeted two vehicles east of Palmyra city in the eastern countryside of Homs.
Two more militants were wounded in the ambush of the Sabkhet al-Meleh area, sources told Zaman al-Wasl.
Also, a member of the Russian-backed National Defense militia was killed on Friday in a landmine explosion, left behind by the Islamic State in the Rusafa desert, southwest of Raqqa province.
In its turn, Russian warplanes continue their intensive airstrikes, targeting caves of ISIS fighters in Sukhna, Palmyra cities east of Homs, and Khanasir and Athariya areas, south of Aleppo, in the Shoula valley, Kababjib and Jabal al-Bishri southwest Deir Ezzor, and the badia of Al-Rusafa and Safyan, southwest of Raqqa.
No ISIS casualties were reported.
In response to the mounting attacks by the Islamic State, Zaman al-Wasl on Wednesday learned that the Iranian Revolutionary Guard supplied allied militias in the Syrian desert with advanced weapons, including anti-armor machine guns.
A well-informed source said the Revolutionary Guard delivered advanced weapons to its points and to the Afghan Fatemiyoun militia based in the Palmyra and Arak desert in the eastern countryside of Homs province.
The sources stated that the Revolutionary Guards also delivered the same bulletproof military suits that are worn by the "special forces" in the Iranian militias only, noting that seven points of the Iranian Revolutionary Guards and five others belonging to the "Fatemiyoun" militia were provided in the desert of Palmyra and Arak. .
The sources indicated that the delivery process took place under the supervision of prominent leaders of the Revolutionary Guards, as more than 40 weapons and 50 military uniforms were delivered.
The militia stressed that the supply process came with the aim of raising the readiness of the points to counter the repeated attacks by the Islamic State on the military sites and points of the Iranian militias in the Palmyra desert during the last period.
It is noteworthy that this armament operation is the first of its kind in the past years within the military points of the Iranian militias in the eastern countryside of Homs.
ISIS, which declared a caliphate straddling parts of Syria and Iraq in 2014, has lost all the territory that was under its control in 2019.
However, the group continues to wage a low-level fight in both countries, launching frequent hit-and-run raids from desert hideouts on either side of the border with Iraq.
Also, unknown assailants launched another attack on two military vehicles with a guided missile in the al-Arak area on Monday, killing four army troops.
Syria’s conflict began in March 2011 and has killed nearly half a million people and displaced half the country’s pre-war population of 23 million
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