Syrian Army gains in Daesh’s last central Syria bastion
madaresharghi The Syrian Army and its allies were fighting on Saturday in Daesh’s last pocket in central Syria after taking the heavily defended village of Uqairabat on Friday, a monitor reported. The enclave lies close to the main road running between the cities of Homs and Aleppo near the town of Al-Salamiya, and has been […]
The Syrian Army and its allies were fighting on Saturday in Daesh’s last pocket in central Syria after taking the heavily defended village of Uqairabat on Friday, a monitor reported.
The enclave lies close to the main road running between the cities of Homs and Aleppo near the town of Al-Salamiya, and has been the site of intense fighting for months. Evicting terrorists from the area is viewed as necessary to improve security on the road, Reuters wrote.
The Syrian Army, aided by Russian airstrikes and Shia fighters including Lebanon’s resistance movement Hezbollah, has advanced deep into eastern Syria this year against Daesh.
It is pushing to relieve its besieged enclave in the city of Deir Ezzor, one of the cities on the Euphrates to which Daesh has fallen back after losses in both Syria and Iraq, but has left the pocket in central Syria in its rear.
Late on Friday, a military media unit run by Hezbollah said the army had captured Uqairabat, which it described as Daesh’s stronghold in that region.
The war monitor, the Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, said the army and its allies had also taken other villages in the area, aided by Russian helicopters, and reported that intense fighting continued.