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Deir Ezzur: Syrian Army Repels ISIL’s Attack on Positions Near Border with Iraq

 

The Syrian army continued its military advances in Southeastern Deir Ezzur and clashed with a group of terrorists trying to attack the government forces’ military positions near the border with Iraq.

The Syrian army troops engaged in heavy clashes with the ISIL terrorists who were planning to attack the army positions near Point 400 close to the border with Iraq and thwarted their attack.

The government forces destroyed a number of military vehicles of the terrorists and seized a drone and a large volume of their weapons and military equipment.

In a relevant development on Thursday, the Syrian army fully cleansed Badiyeh (desert) of Deir Ezzur of the remnants of the ISIL terrorists in an operation in the Southeastern parts of the province, regaining control over 5,800 sq/km of territory.

The Syrian army’s operations command center announced in a statement on Thursday that its forces have been able to retake control of the entire Badiyeh region in Deir Ezzur in military operations also backed by the air force.

It added that the army units have won back control of 5,800 sq/km of the country’s soil after heavy clashes with the terrorists and inflicting heavy losses and damages on them.

The Syrian army has fully purged the terrorists from regions in Eastern Homs and Badiyeh of Deir Ezzur to the borders with Iraq.

In a relevant development on Monday, government troops in Syria continued their cleansing operation in Southeastern Deir Ezzur and drove the remaining pockets of ISIL terrorists out of a vast stretch of land.

The army men engaged in fierce clashes with the remaining pockets of ISIL in Southeastern Deir Ezzur and freed 1,800 sq/km of land along the border with Syria near Point 400 in Albu Kamal region.

A large number of ISIL terrorists were killed and their military hardware were destroyed in the operation.

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