Arsalan
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Yup, the vehicle do looks exactly the same and that is why the picture was circulating on the internet.Clearly the destroyed vehicle is an 8x8 truck, with 4 hydraulical stabilizers with round 'feet', and a cab of a design just like that the vehicle that is carrying the Pantsir system container found in use with the Syrian military. See below:
Clearly in aircraft shelter setting
https://southfront.org/syrian-milit...systems-to-kuweires-airbase-near-aleppo-city/
Note Syrian (not Iraqi) flags
(Russian) Pantsir system at Latakia air base
Nevertheless, Syria is not the only Pantsir user in the Region.
Iraq Receives Last Batch of Pantsir-S1 Combat Vehicles
http://www.defaiya.com/news/Regional News/Iraq/2016/02/15/iraq-receives-last-batch-of-pantsir-s1-combat-vehicles
See also:
Surface-to-air missile weapon system Pantsir-S1 and Igla-S MANPADS system with 1PN97M Mowgli-2M thermal imager, used by Iraq's armed forces.
https://sputniknews.com/middleeast/201704091052462296-russian-syria-air-defense-upgrade/
Those of UAE are mounted on a different truck, the MAN-SX45
Pantsir-S1 air-defence missile system of United Arab Emirates Army arrive to Yemen
http://defence-blog.com/news/pantsir-s1-air-defence-missile-system-of-uae-arrive-to-yemen.html
Jordan, Oman and Iran also have or ordered Pantsir S1.
So, question is, when/where/by whom was the pic of the destroyed vehicle taken? Original source would proof valuable information.
As for original source, i have not seen this picture being attributed to ANYOTHER incident but the missile strikes in Syria. Have you checked the twitter link i shared? It says something (do not know what because of language). May be that gives us some hint?