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| ISIS launches new attack on Syrian troops in Deir ez-Zor |
| 2017-01-06 |
| [ARA News] Deir Ezzor – Militant fighters of the Islamic State (ISIS) launched on Thursday a major offensive on Syrian Army bases in Deir ez-Zor Governorate, in eastern Syria. ISIS militants initiated the offensive by targeting headquarters of the Syrian regime’s army forces in the Bagheliya town with heavy artillery and mortar shells. Dozens of casualties were reported among the Syrian forces in Bagheliya. The group also attacked the 137th Regiment of the Syrian Army in western Deir ez-Zor with two car bomb attacks, followed by fierce mortar shelling. “The attacks on the 137th Regiment caused the destruction of several military vehicles and the death of over 20 Syrian Army soldiers,” media activist Samer al-Khalaf told ARA News in Deir ez-Zor. In the evening on Thursday, ISIS fighters continued their offensive by shelling the regime-held Military Airport of Deir ez-Zor. The results of the airbase attack remained unknown. Most of the city of Deir ez-Zor and its countryside is under ISIS control. However, pro-regime army troops still hold control of several neighborhoods in the city beside a military airport in Deir ez-Zor suburb. The province of Deir ez-Zor is deemed strategic for ISIS for it links the group’s de facto capital of Raqqa with Iraqi territory controlled by the radical group. |
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