BEIRUT –
The Syrian army has, with the help of iranian backed militias Monday the control is recovered to the oil and gas fields of al-Daylaa and Zamla in the southwest of the province of Raqqa. Islamic State in recent weeks has been forced increasingly to withdraw from this desert area. Saturday were Wahab, al-Fahd, Dbaysan, al-Qseer, Abu al-Qatat and Abu Qatash recaptured.
According to the Syrian Observatory for human Rights advancing the forces of president Assad and their Iraqi and Lebanese allies, funded by Iran, now on to the mountain range of Jabal al-Bishri, 55 kilometers west of the city of Deir al-Zor. That area is still an important haven for jihadists.
The Syrian state media reported that Russian fighter jets were already bombing carried out near al-Sukhna, at the southern entrance to Deir al-Zor.