Deir Ezzur: ISIL Raid on Panorama Fails Again

The army troops engaged in fierce clashes with the ISIL militants who sought to open their way into the Panorama region from the Southern side of Deir Ezzur and warded off their offensive.

Tens of terrorists were killed and wounded in the clashes, forcing the ISIL to issue a retreat oder.

Meantime, the Syrian fighter jets launched repeated attacks on ISIL’s gathering centers and moves in al-Maqaber (Deir Ezzur’s cemetery) region in the Southern outskirts of the city and the old airport, al-Hamidiyeh and al-Sana’ah districts.

The airstrikes smashed the ISIL positions and killed an unidentified number of militants.

Earlier today, the Syrian army and air force tightened the noose on terrorists who have besieged the Deir Ezzur airbase and killed tens of militants.

The Syrian fighter jets and missile and artillery units launched heavy strikes against ISIL positions near al-Maqaber region in the Southern outskirts of the city, inflicting losses on the militants.

Also, the Syrian army units targeted and blew up in air a bomb-laden drone belonging to the ISIL over al-Rawad hill in the Southwestern parts of Deir Ezzur.

Meantime, local sources reported that the ISIL has hidden most parts of the main streets leading to Bu Kamal market with tents and covers to blind army drones.

The ISIL terrorists drove a wedge along the government-controlled regions mid-January after capturing Deir Ezzur’s cemetery and the road connecting the city to the airbase. 14,000 ISIL terrorists launched a massive attack on army positions South of Deir Ezzur city, cutting off the strategic road connecting the city to the military airport.

After several rounds of heavy offensives against the Syrian Army positions that all failed, 14,000 ISIL militants and tens of suicide attackers and bomb-laden vehicles, managed to advance against government forces on the road connecting Deir Ezzur airbase to the city, dividing army-controlled regions in Deir Ezzur into two parts.

Military sources disclosed that the ISIL’s current round of attacks is the heaviest and largest operation the terrorist group has ever conducted in Deir Ezzur city and its military airport.

According to reports, the ISIL has gathered a large number of its forces from Raqqa, Deir Ezzur countryside and even from Mosul in Iraq to take part in the offensive. The ISIL also has a large number of suicide attackers and bomb-laden vehicles involved in the offensive in Deir Ezzur.

Then, Syrian Army troops, backed up by the Syrian and Russian air force, started to hit ISIL’s positions hard in the outskirts of Deir Ezzur to remove terrorists’ siege on the city’s military airport, managing to recapture several regions between the Deir Ezzur airbase and the city.

Syrian army units backed by aerial support have recaptured more areas in strategic al-Ma’amel region and in the surrounding areas of security brigade, as the military operations come closer to breaking the Deir Ezzur military airport siege.