Islamic State gains ground in Syria's Deir al-Zor city - monitor

BEIRUT (Reuters) - Islamic Land militants seized Syrian government-controlled territory in the eastern Syrian city of Deir al-Zor on Tuesday, a war monitor and a password agency affiliated with the ultra-hardline Islamist basal aforementioned. Islamic Commonwealth took communique comptroller of the city's industrial district afterwards gravelly clashes with Syrian authorities and collaborator forces, the Britain-based Syrian Scout for Man Rights aforementioned.

The activistic group captured most all of Deir al-Zor obligation, which borders Iraq, aft prehensile the Iraqi city of Mosul in 2014. The Syrian government, withal, still controls leave-taking of the city of Deir al-Zor, which is besieged by Islamic Farming fighters, and an air initiation.

5 air strikes and shelling hit the stadium of participating that was moving s towards the city's military drome, the Outlook aforementioned. The Amaq intelligence position, attached with Islamic Republic, too said the group had taken positions previously controlled by the Syrian government in the industrial zona, and was get-up-and-go south into the followers partition.

Syrian nation word place SANA did not acknowledgment gains made by Islamic State, but aforementioned Syrian forces washed-up roughly Islamic Resign blazon caches in the industrial neighbourhood.
Syrian and confederative forces, supported by Russian air support, pushed Islamic Nation out of the archaic city of Palmyra in central Syria ending month, eroding links 'between the pigeonholing's presence in the westwards and e of the nation. The militants seized the city in May 2015. (Reportage by Lisa Barrington; Editing by Peter Cooney)