>>153295Yes, they used tanks whenever they had the adequate people to operate them whenever they captured them or even built them, albeit of course building vehicles was far less common than simply finding a garage of old Soviet tanks the Syrian army had locked up in a base. That little drift was from a military parade in one of the major cities, I think probably Mosul, back in 2014 or 2015, from when some VICE journalists were allowed safe passage through there.