"As a habitual tool for the implementation of their subversive plans [in Syria], the US intelligence services again intend to use Islamic extremists," the SVR said in a statement, adding that "crowded places, shops and government agencies are among the priority targets."
According to the SVR, "the management of this criminal activity is carried out from the American military base Al-Tanf near the borders of Syria with Jordan and Iraq."
Dozens of Daesh* militants are being trained there, the ranks of which the Americans regularly replenish, releasing terrorists from prisons in the occupied northeastern part of Syria, the special service notes.
"Small arms, ammunition, anti-tank missile systems are delivered by trucks to the training camps," the report says. "Impressive is the cynicism of the tasks that American curators set for gang leaders. Among the priority targets are crowded places, shops and government agencies."
The intelligence service added that "a group of US intelligence officers stationed in this zone is coordinating in real time attacks by militants controlled by Washington, primarily in the troubled southern provinces of As-Suwayda and Daraa."
Also "under the attack of terrorists [is placed] a strategically important route between the cities of Palmyra and Deir ez-Zor," the service added.
* A terrorist organization outlawed in Russia and many other states