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Syrian Army Restores Control over New Areas in Deir Ezzor, Russians and Kurds pile on
The Syrian Army units operating in Deir Ezzor on Thursday regained control over new areas in the western and eastern countryside of Deir Ezzor city in the framework of their wide-scale military operations to uproot terrorism.SANA’s reporter said that the army units regained control over Damen battalion, southwest of the Airport, and the first water-pumping station in al-Mrai’eyeh. The reporter added that the Air Force and Artillery of the Syrian army destroyed, in intensive strikes, ISIL positions and movement axes, killing a number of terrorists in the villages of Aiyash, al-Jeneineh, Howeijet Saqer, al-Mrai’eyeh and al-Husseinyeh in the countryside of Deir Ezzor province. Source: SANA Russian submarines attack Daesh targets in Dayr al-Zawr [Iran Press TV] Russia says it has launched a missile attack against positions held by ISIS in Syria’s eastern province of Dayr al-Zawr from the submarines stationed in the Mediterranean Sea. In a statement released on Thursday, the Russian Defense Ministry said seven Kalibr cruise missiles were fired from Russia’s Velikiy Novgorod and Kolpino submarines in the eastern Mediterranean. The missiles, it said, hit all the planned targets, which were within a range of 500 to 670 kilometers. The targets that came under the attack included "control centers, communication hubs, bully boy weapons and ammunition warehouses in ISIS (ISIS)-controlled areas in southeast Dayr al-Zawr," the statement read. Earlier this month, the Syrian government forces broke the three-year-long ISIS siege on Dayr al-Zawr city, the lovely provincial capital of the oil-rich province of the same name. US-backed forces capture ISIS stronghold in eastern Deir Ezzor [AlMasdar] The US-backed Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) have captured the strategic district of al-Husseiniyeh along the eastern bank of the Deir Ezzor Governorate, Kurdish activists reported on Thursday evening. The capture of the al-Husseiniyeh District by the Syrian Democratic Forces leaves the 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 Allaharound with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not reallyMoslems.... in serious trouble in Deir Ezzor, as their units are now besieged in a large pocket around the lovely provincial capital. Al-Husseiniyeh was also a major supply hub for the terrorist group that was used to replenish provisions for Islamic State fighters in western Deir Ezzor. With al-Husseiniyeh captured, the Syrian Democratic Forces can now turn their attention to the remaining areas occupied by the Islamic State along the eastern banks of the Euphrates River. Posted by: badanov 2017-09-15 |
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