SYRIA’S military announced the capture of the last major Isis stronghold yesterday, the day after troops attacked it from inside Iraq.

An army spokesman said the fall of Abu Kamal on the south-eastern border meant the end of the hopes of Isis and its foreign backers to “divide [and] control large parts of the Syria-Iraq borders and secure supply routes between the two countries.”

Egyptian President Abdel-Fattah el-Sissi warned that Isis extremists would now head for chaotic Libya following their defeat in Syria and Iraq.