- Washington “follows with interest” Morocco’s openness onto Africa (John Kerry)Posted 11 years ago
- The trial of South African Paralympic champion Oscar Pistorius opened in Pretoria on Monday.Posted 11 years ago
- USA welcomes efforts of King Mohammed VI in MaliPosted 11 years ago
- Egypt’s population reaches 94 millionPosted 11 years ago
- Mugabe celebrates his 90thPosted 11 years ago
- Moroccan Monarch to Build a Perinatal Clinic in BamakoPosted 11 years ago
- King Mohammed VI handed a donation of bovine semen for the benefit of Malian breeders.Posted 11 years ago
- Moroccan King’s strategic tour to Africa: Strengthening the will of pan African Solidarity and stimulating the south-south cooperation mechanisms over the continentPosted 12 years ago
- Senior al-Qaida leader killed in AlgeriaPosted 12 years ago
- Libya: The trial of former Prime Minister al-Baghdadi AliPosted 12 years ago
ISIS militants gain ground in Syria’s Deir al-Zor
ISIS militants seized Syrian government-controlled territory in the eastern Syrian city of Deir al-Zor on Tuesday, a war monitor and a news agency affiliated with the ultra-hardline extremist group said.
ISIS took complete control of the city’s industrial district after fierce clashes with Syrian government and allied forces, the Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said.
The militant group captured nearly all of Deir al-Zor province, which borders Iraq, after seizing the Iraqi city of Mosul in 2014. The Syrian government, however, still controls part of the city of Deir al-Zor, which is besieged by ISIS fighters, and an air base.
Five air strikes and shelling hit the area of fighting that was moving south towards the city’s military airport, the Observatory said.
The Amaq news agency, affiliated with ISIS, also said the group had taken positions previously controlled by the Syrian government in the industrial district, and was pushing south into the next district.
Syrian state news agency SANA did not mention gains made by ISIS, but said Syrian forces destroyed some ISIS arms caches in the industrial neighborhood.
Syrian and allied forces, supported by Russian air support, pushed ISIS out of the ancient city of Palmyra in central Syria last month, eroding links between the group’s presence in the west and east of the country. The militants seized the city in May 2015.
