BEIRUT, LEBANON (4:40 P.M.) – Russian helicopters recently rushed to chase Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL/IS/Daesh) terrorists after they attacked a passenger bus carrying soldiers from the Syrian Arab Army (SAA) along the Palmyra-Deir Ezzor International Highway.
“A group (ISIS) traveling in two four-wheel drive vehicles loaded with machine guns, attacked a military bus with Syrian army soldiers on board near the Syrian-Iraqi border in the Deir Ezzor countryside,” a source told Sputnik Arabic.
The source confirmed that one of the vehicles was completely destroyed while fleeing deep into the desert, in addition to the damage of the other.
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In a statement to Sputnik, Major General Nizar Al-Khader, head of the security and military committee in the Deir Ezzor Governorate and commander of the 17th Infantry Division, said that the group of 5 terrorists who were traveling in a four-wheel-drive vehicle equipped with a machine gun was eliminated, while two others were pursued to be eliminated today.”
Video footage of a Russian chopper chasing the Islamic State vehicle was captured by Sputnik Arabic’s lenses and released this week:
