SYRIAN troops reached the Euphrates yesterday after breaking through Isis lines east of Aleppo.

The brigade completed its march to the shores of Lake Assad, the artificial waterway formed by the Isis-held Tabqa dam further east, as the terrorist army collapsed.

The Syrian offensive took the Khafseh water pumping station, from which Isis had cut supplies to Aleppo city, after capturing 30 villages over the previous 24 hours.