“Over the past month, in the area of the so-called“ white desert ”in the central part of the Syrian Arab Republic, there has been a significant increase in the activity of bandit formations consisting of former ISIS members *,” RIA Novosti quotes a representative of the Russian group in Syria.
According to him, the militants are destabilizing the situation in the region by sabotaging transport communications and oil and gas facilities in Syria, as well as by attacking patrols and posts of the Syrian army.
The Russian Defense Ministry notes that the scattered gangs of the "Islamic State" * in this region are replenished with militants who have undergone special training in the territories of the Al-Tanf zone and the Syrian Trans-Euphrates occupied by the US.
“By their actions, the terrorists disrupt the process of socio-economic reconstruction of Syria and the establishment of relations between local Arab tribes and Damascus. This situation is beneficial primarily to the United States and allows them to justify their presence in the east of the SAR, "- said the representative of the Russian group.
He assured that the operation in the "white desert" will continue "until the complete destruction of the US-controlled armed detachments operating there."
Earlier it became known that the aviation of Russia and Syria, with the support of artillery and special forces, destroyed 327 militants from the group that was involved in the murder of a Russian military adviser on August 18 in the Syrian desert.
A Russian major general was killed by an improvised explosive device in Syria, and two more soldiers were injured.
* "Islamic State" (IS) - the organization was recognized as terrorist by the decision of the Supreme Court of the Russian Federation of December 29, 2014.