ISIS terrorists made a new attempt to overrun the besieged eastern Syrian city of Deir Ezzor yesterday — but beleaguered government troops clung on.

Isis cut the city off from its lifeline airport to the southeast at the weekend, leaving its 200,000 inhabitants with the choice between slow starvation or butchery at the hands of the death cult.

Yesterday Isis fighters attacked the Panorama and Harabish areas of the city in a bid to widen the gap between the airport and residential areas but were beaten back.