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ISIS fights off renewed Syrian Army assault near Deir Ezzor Airbase
[ALMASDARNEWS] On Friday, 10 soldiers of the Syrian Arab Army (SAA) were killed amid festivities with ISIS forces of Evil on the perimeter of Deir Ezzor Airbase, Amaq Agency claimed.

ISIS sustained a similar corpse count, a military source told al-Masdar News.

However,
denial ain't just a river in Egypt...
the ISIS outlet also released a video showing an anti-tank missile striking a Bofors 57 mm gun at an SAA-held trench inside the airport pocket near Harabesh Mountain:

On the other hand, the 104th Airborne Division of the Elite Republican Guard, National Defence Forces and allied tribal fighters managed to overrun numerous ISIS-held points in the region, even liberating the Electricity Station north of Deir Ezzor Airbase.

Meanwhile,
...back at the wreckage, Captain Poindexter awoke groggily, his hand still stuck in the Ming vase...
liberation may soon be on its way to Deir Ezzor as reports suggest Suheil al-Hassan, commander-in-chief of the Tiger Forces has been deployed to the Palmyra frontier and will strike eastwards through Islamic State
...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not really Moslems....
territory towards the besieged city.

Although thousands of SAA troops are stationed inside the two Deir Ezzor pockets, government forces reportedly lack armored vehicles which are tricky ‐ if not impossible ‐ to replace through airdrops.
Posted by: Fred 2017-05-06
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