Yesterday, Wednesday, ISIS forces launched an offensive, cutting off the trade and smuggling route established by Iran to connect it with Syria via Iraq to Lebanese territory, via the railway crossing in the al-Hari area, east of al-Bukmal in eastern Syria.

A knowledgeable source told the Syrian news network operating in the east of the country - "Ein al-Porat" that gunmen affiliated with the Islamic State organization, who had 6 fighters riding 3 motorcycles, attacked a convoy of refrigerated trucks coming from the port of Latakia in northwestern Syria.

Where the group cut off the international road to Iraq in the al-Duir area - al-Duir near Al-Saliya antiquities, it stopped a convoy of 7 refrigerated trucks loaded with fruit and citrus, which arrived from the port of Latakia.

Three of the refrigerated truck owners managed to escape the ambush, but the organization managed to eliminate the remaining four, and the surviving drivers arrived in a panic at the truck parking lot in the village of al-Hari on the Iraq-Syria border.

It is worth noting that Iranian militias have set up extensive parking lots and rest areas for large transport trucks, refrigerated trucks and trucks transporting goods to and from Iraq, through an illegal border crossing called the "Railway Crossing" located not far from the official Alkaim border crossing.

The militias set up illegal border crossings and crossing points between Syria and Iraq to bring in weapons and drugs in addition to other commercial activities that yield great financial benefit, authorizing cars and registered and unregistered goods to cross the border in exchange for any merchant or car owner paying $400 to $2000 depending on the type and quantity of goods.

It is worth noting that ISIS recently launched an attack on the same site on a large payload containing large amounts of tobacco (for smoking) and Captagon-type drug pills, and they killed the truck driver, who was a member of the National Defense Militia, before burning the car and its contents.