The ISIL terrorist group has executed 43 of its own militants on charges of leaving the battlefields and escaping war against the Syrian army, local sources reported.

"The ISIL arrested and killed 43 of its own members on charges of trying to escape to Iraq after the groups' failures in clashes with the Syrian Army and popular forces in the Eastern province," the sources said.

On Tuesday, Syrian army troops, backed by popular forces, staunchly responded to thwart a concerted attack by the ISIL terrorists to seize a university campus in Deir Ezzur city, Eastern Syria, killing an ISIL commander during the fierce clashes with them.

Scores of ISIL terrorists, spearheaded by explosive-laden vehicles, tried to wreak havoc on army positions to attack the university compound in the Northwestern part of the city; however, pro-government forces foiled the attack and hit them back very severely, killing many of the militants.

Two vehicles of ISIL fighters, fully loaded with explosives, were blown up by the Syrian soldiers well before reaching the Literature School of Deir Ezzur University's premises.

The Syrian army troops and their popular forces allies, in their operation to foil the ISIL militants' assault on the university campus, also manage to round up more than 40 terrorists; among them was an ISIL commander.

The Syrian fighter jets carried out several combat flights over ISIL positions near the Northern neighborhoods of Deir Ezzur after the army troops stopped the terrorist offensive on the city.

The Syrian army and the National Defense Forces also managed to fend off several ISIL offensives on government forces' defense lines in the Northwestern part of the city of Deir Ezzur, killing scores of the terrorists; FNA reported.

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