The Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps sent huge military reinforcements to the Mahin area in the eastern countryside of Homs in order to protect its warehouses, an informed source told Zaman al-Wasl.
The IRGc brought on Monday evening brought new reinforcements from the city of Palmyra in the Syrian desert, and another from the T-4 military airport.
The reporter said that the reinforcements had included military vehicles and dozens of military vehicles with four-wheel drives equipped with ground and heavy machine guns. In addition to more than 100 militants.
The reinforcements came as part of preparations to carry out a wide campaign on the outskirts of the strategic Mahin warehouses to secure and protect them from any attack by the “Islamic State” group.
Zaman Al-Wasl correspondent confirmed that one of the military convoys coming within the reinforcements was subjected to an armed attack by the organization's elements near the city of "Al-Qaryatayn", leaving six dead and more than 10 wounded.
On Monday, four militants of the Iraqi Hezbollah Battalions were killed and five more wounded in a surprise attack by the "Islamic State" group near the town of Al-Sukhna in the Syrian Badia desert, local sources told Zaman al-Wasl.
The attack targeted a military headquarters in the Al-Taybeh area near the desert town of Al-Sukhna with a guided missile and heavy machine guns.
Among the dead was a field commander named "Haj Fawzi", who is responsible for the newly-installed military headquarters.
The Iraqi-branch Hezbollah militia deployed military reinforcements in the desert Sukhnah town in the eastern Homs countryside on Friday.
The "Iraqi Hezbollah", also, sent reinforcements from Damascus to Al-Sukhnah on Friday.
Iranian militias have been working for weeks to strengthen their military presence in the areas of the Syrian Badia, specifically the areas of the eastern countryside of Homs, after they were targeted by the cells of the Islamic State, which are still active throughout eastern Syria.
Despite the fall of ISIS in 2017, the group continues to launch deadly attacks from hideouts in the Syrian desert, which extends from the outskirts of the capital Damascus to the Iraqi border.
About half a million people have been killed and millions have been displaced since the Syrian conflict erupted in 2011, after nationwide protests against the government were met with a brutal crackdown.
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