Meanwhile the Syrian Army troops continued to hit the ISIL (Islamic State, ISIS, IS and Daesh) centers heavily in the Western countryside of Deir Ezzur (Deir elZur) and pushed the terrorists back from a key district after at least two days of tough battle.
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The Syrian soldiers liberated the Panorama checkpoint and then reached at the outskirts of the Armenian Cemetery on Thursday night.
The ISIL suffered a heavy death toll and its military sources sustained major damage in the army offensives in recent days. In past 3 days in the Eastern province Dozens of ISIL members were killed in the Syrian army and air force operations in different parts of the Eastern province of Deir Ezzur with the remaining terrorists fleeing the battlefield.
“On Thursday 50 ISIL Takfiri terrorists were killed as their dens were destroyed in the vicinity of Panorama region, Al Tharda Mountain and Al Mayadeen road in Deir Ezzur province," a military commander said.
The Syrian army units clashed with the Takfiri terrorist groups affiliated to the ISIL after they infiltrated into the vicinity of Al Mazare in the Southeast of Panorama in the Southwestern outskirts of Deir Ezzur city, the commander added.
Also, field sources said that the Syrian air force targeted the ISIL terrorists' gathering centers in al-Sana'a region in Deir Ezzur while the army's artillery units inflicted heavy damage on the militants in the same region and killed dozens of them, FNA reports.
The Syrian fighter jets also bombed the ISIL headquarters in Al Murayeh village in the Southeastern parts of Deir Ezzur, leaving tens of terrorists dead or wounded and destroying their weapons and vehicles, they said, adding that the remaining militants fled the scene after facing the heavy fire.
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