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| Syrian army retakes central gas field from IS group |
| 2017-06-17 |
| [AlAhram] The Syrian army on Thursday retook a gas field in the country's centre from 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.... group, a monitor said. "Regime forces seized the Arak gas field" in the central province of Homs, said the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights. Arak, like much of the surrounding desert region of Badiya, had been in the hands of the jihadists since 2015. The army is pressing an offensive to recapture the vast region, which stretches from central Syria to the borders with Iraq and Jordan. The Arak gas field lies 35 kilometres (20 miles) northeast of the ancient city of Palmyra, which regime forces retook with Russian support in March after IS overran it in 2014. The Observatory says the Syrian army now stands 25 kilometres to the south of the town of al-Sukhna, which lies even further northeast. The recapture of al-Sukhna could allow the army to advance into the mostly IS-held province of Deir Ezzor. On Saturday, the army said it holds more than 20 percent of the Badiya region, after reaching the Iraqi border for the first time since 2015. The regime has lost control of many oil and gas fields since the start in 2011 of Syria's conflict, especially in the provinces of Homs and Deir Ezzor. But the army has since regained some including the Jazal oil field, some 20 kilometres northwest of Palmyra. |
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