SYRIA’S army recaptured territory from Isis south-east of Raqqa on Saturday night.

The army’s special forces also seized an oil field in al-Sabkhawi gas field and the town of al-Dakhila on the Euphrates river as part of the advance, according to the official Sana news agency.

But sources within the army told Al Masdar News yesterday that they had since pushed further east to Shamiyah, just 25 miles northwest of the Isis-besieged city of Deir Ezzor.