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Dayr al-Zawr siege relief ‘important victory’: Iran FM

EghtesadOnline: Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif says the Syrian army's breaking of a years-long siege by Daesh Takfiri group of the eastern city of Dayr al-Zawr is an "important victory" against extremist and terrorist groups.
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Publish Date:06/September/2017 | 24:55

Syrian Army liberates village in Hama province

EghtesadOnline: The Syrian Army, continuing their operation in north of Hama province, purged Maardis village of Daesh (ISIS) and other terrorist groups members.
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Publish Date:03/April/2017 | 24:31

Syrian army advances in district east of Damascus-monitor

EghtesadOnline: The Syrian army and its allies gained control of an arterial road in a small rebel pocket in northeast Damascus early on Monday, bringing them close to splitting the enclave in two, a Britain-based war monitor reported.
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Publish Date:13/March/2017 | 13:03

Syrian rebels set to lose another Aleppo district: insurgent

EghtesadOnline: Another key district of eastern Aleppo has effectively fallen to advancing Syrian government forces, a rebel official said on Monday, as the army and allied militia pressed an assault against the opposition-held enclave.
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Publish Date:05/December/2016 | 10:59

Rebels defiant as Syrian army nears Aleppo's Old City

EghtesadOnline: Syria's army and allied militia advanced towards rebel-held areas of Aleppo's Old City on Sunday in an attack which a military source predicted would be over in a matter of weeks.
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Publish Date:05/December/2016 | 10:15

Syrian rebels vow to resist army advances in Aleppo

EghtesadOnline: Syrian rebels on Wednesday vowed to fight on in east Aleppo in the face of sudden government advances that have cut the area held by the opposition by a third in recent days and brought insurgents in the city to the brink of a catastrophic defeat.
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Publish Date:30/November/2016 | 19:44

Syrian army, allies race to relieve Deir al-Zor

EghtesadOnline: Syria’s army and its allies raced towards their enclave in the Euphrates city of Deir al-Zor after a rapid advance on Sunday, seeking to relieve it after years of Islamic State siege as jihadist defenses suddenly collapsed.
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Publish Date:04/September/2017 | 07:09

Syrian army announces ceasefire in south ahead of Astana talks

EghtesadOnline: The Syrian army said on Monday it would suspend combat operations in southern Syria until Thursday ahead of a new round of peace talks in the Kazakh capital Astana, but rebels said the army had already violated the ceasefire by striking areas under their control.
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Publish Date:04/July/2017 | 05:22

Syrian army and allies step up bombing of rebels in Deraa city

EghtesadOnline: The Syrian army and Iran-backed militia forces have escalated attacks against a rebel-held part of the southern city of Deraa, a possible prelude to a large-scale campaign to wrest full control of the city, rebels and residents said on Monday.
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Publish Date:12/June/2017 | 05:14

Syrian army sends reinforcements toward border with Iraq: rebels

EghtesadOnline: The Syrian army aided by Iranian-backed militias was moving troops to a desert region near its border with Iraq and Jordan just as U.S. backed rebels are consolidating control in an area from which Islamic State militants had recently pulled out, rebel sources and commanders said on Monday.
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Publish Date:15/May/2017 | 04:42

Syrian army takes more villages from militants in northwest Syria

EghtesadOnline: The Syrian army has expanded its control over former Islamic State-held villages in northwest Syria, gaining more territory as it pushes back the jihadists from more pockets in Aleppo province, state media said on Saturday.
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Publish Date:05/March/2017 | 05:35

Syrian army in 'final stages' of Aleppo offensive

EghtesadOnline: The Syrian army and its allies are in the "final stages" of recapturing Aleppo after a sudden advance that has pushed rebels to the brink of collapse in a shrinking enclave, a Syrian general said on Monday.
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Publish Date:12/December/2016 | 14:29

Syrian army's Aleppo advance slows, but victory in sight

EghtesadOnline: The Syrian army's advance in Aleppo slowed on Thursday but a victory was still firmly in sight after President Bashar al-Assad vowed that retaking the city would change the course of the six-year-old war.
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Publish Date:08/December/2016 | 21:25

Monitor says Syrian army seizes Aleppo Old City from rebels

EghtesadOnline: A war monitor said on Wednesday the Syrian army had seized control of all parts of the Old City of Aleppo which had been held by rebels, part of an advance which has seen insurgents lose around two thirds of their main urban stronghold over the past two weeks.
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Publish Date:07/December/2016 | 10:43

Russia seeks full withdrawal of Aleppo rebels

EghtesadOnline: Russia said on Saturday it was ready for talks with the United States about a withdrawal of all Syrian rebels from eastern Aleppo, where advances by the Russian-backed Syrian army and its allies threaten to deal a crushing blow to the rebellion.
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Publish Date:04/December/2016 | 12:01