Syria: Pro-Assad forces take more ground in war for Deir Ezzor
SYRIAN and Russian forces dealt new defeats to Isis across the country yesterday in their push to lift the siege of Deir Ezzor.
Breaking through to the Isis-surrounded eastern city and the oil-rich province of the same name is seen as the key to defeating the death cult and ending the six-year war.
The Russian-trained Isis Hunters battalion of the Syrian army captured Huwaysis and surrounding countryside in the recently surrounded 45-mile-wide pocket northwest of Palmyra.
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