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News ID: 45363
Publish Date : 17 October 2017 - 20:41

Syrian Army, Allies Advance Against Daesh in Dayr al-Zawr




BEIRUT (Dispatches) – The Syrian army and allied forces pushed into the remaining Daesh-held districts of Dayr al-Zawr city in eastern Syria on Tuesday, a Hezbollah military media unit said.
Backed by Russian air power and Iran-backed military advisors, the Syrian army has been fighting in the city since last month, after breaking a Daesh siege of an enclave there that had lasted three years.
Syrian troops and their allies made gains on Tuesday after "storming districts of Dayr al-Zawr city to clear them from (Daesh)”, said the media unit run by Lebanon’s Hezbollah, a key ally of the Damascus government.
The so-called Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, a Britain-based war monitoring group, said Daesh terrorists still controlled nearly five neighborhoods of the city.
Syrian government forces have been fighting to oust Daesh from the eastern oil-rich province of Dayr al-Zawr which borders Iraq. Dayr al-Zawr city sits on the western bank of the Euphrates river.
The UK-based observatory said on Tuesday that Daesh had lost control of 10 strategic areas in eastern Syria in the past 48 hours.
According to the report, the Syrian army and its allies, backed by Russian and Syrian aerial cover, gained control of the town of Albu Leil and Muhassan City and their surrounding areas in Day al-Zawr Province.
The recapture means the area stretching between the cities of Dayr al-Zawr and Mayadin, which was liberated from Daesh on Saturday, is now under the control of the Syrian government.
The Syrian military operation reportedly forced Daesh terrorists to withdraw from the western bank of the Euphrates to the river’s eastern bank. An unspecified number of terrorists were also killed during the ground and aerial attacks on their positions on the western bank.
The group earlier reported that Syrian forces had taken control of the villages of Zabari, Sa’lu, Toub, and al-Aliat, northwest of the region of Bouqras, which itself was retaken by the army on Monday.
Syria has been gripped by foreign-backed terrorism since March 2011.