Heavy Clashes Between Syria’s Soldiers And The Daesh group In Deir Ezzor City

Heavy Clashes Between Syria’s Soldiers And The Daesh group In Deir Ezzor City.


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Heavy clashes between Syria’s soldiers and the Daesh group in Deir Ezzor city have killed more than 73 fighters in the last 24 hours.

The Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights monitor said, Syria’s army controls most of Deir Ezzor city, capital of Deir Ezzor province in the country’s east, and made further advances after responding to a Daesh attack that began Saturday.

The monitor added that the fierce fighting Saturday killed at least 50 Daesh fighters, as well as 23 Syrian soldiers and pro-regime militiamen.
Observatory director Rami Abdel Rahman said government forces had captured two new neighborhoods and the municipal stadium.

Daesh once held large sections of Deir Ezzor city, and for nearly three years laid siege to other parts of it that remained under government control.

Deir Ezzor, an oil-rich province that borders Iraq, was once a stronghold of Daesh, but the jihadist group faces twin assaults there, from the regime and the US-backed Kurdish-Arab Syrian Democratic Forces.


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