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| Syrian Army nearly splits ISIL’s Deir Ezzor pocket in half – map | |
| 2018-09-15 | |
| [AlMasdar] The Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allaharound with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not reallyMoslems.... (ISIS) is in serious trouble in the western countryside of Deir Ezzor, as they find themselves under a heavy attack from the Syrian military and Russian forces. Led by their Elite Republican Guard, the Syrian Arab Army has managed to liberate a large chunk of the Islamic State-occupied pocket in western Deir Ezzor after launching this surprise operation earlier this week. With help from the Russian Air Force, the Syrian Arab Army has liberated several points from the Islamic State this week, forcing them to fall back towards the T-3 Pumping Station near the Homs provincial border. As a result of this advance, the Syrian Arab Army has nearly split the Islamic State’s pocket in half, while also shrinking it considerably over the last 72 hours. According to a military source in Damascus, the Syrian Arab Army should be able to clear this entire pocket within a week, as the Islamic State continues to fall back in the Badiya al-Sham region.
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