Syrian regime forces expel Islamic State from border town
Violent clashes since Friday have killed at least 48 regime force members and allied fighters, as well as 32 IS fighters including the 10 suicide bombers who led an initial raid
Beirut — The Syrian regime ousted Islamic State (IS) from a town near the border with Iraq on Monday, after days of clashes to end a deadly incursion there, a monitor said. On Friday, the jihadists used at least 10 suicide bombers in their offensive on Albu Kamal, quickly overrunning several of its neighbourhoods, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said. It was the biggest attack on the town in the eastern province of Deir Ezzor since the jihadist group lost it to regime forces in November 2017, the UK-based monitor said. On Monday, "regime forces and their allies regained control of the whole town of Albu Kamal after expelling IS from its northern and northwestern parts," Observatory head Rami Abdel Rahman said. After loyalist forces tried to surround them, the jihadists fled back into Syria’s vast Badiya desert, which stretches from the country’s centre to the border with Iraq, he said. Violent clashes since Friday have killed at least 48 regime forces and allied fighters, as...
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