Syria’s military and allied forces have completely recaptured Deir Az Zor city from ISIL, the armed group’s last urban stronghold in the war-torn country.
Friday’s announcement by state media came after the army and allied militias eliminated the last Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant fighters from the eastern city that had been under a three-year siege.
“The armed forces, in cooperation with allied forces, liberated the city of Deir Az Zor completely from the clutches of the Daesh terrorist organisation,” an unnamed military source was quoted as saying, using an Arab acronym for ISIL.
Deir Az Zor had been almost entirely controlled by ISIL, also known as ISIS, since 2014. It is the main city of the oil-rich province of the same name.
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