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Syrian government troops and allied forces have broken a three-year siege imposed by\u00a0ISIL<\/a>\u00a0fighters on a government enclave in\u00a0the eastern city of Deir Az Zor, according to Syria’s state media.<\/p>\n Backed by Russian air support, the army and their allies had been\u00a0advancing<\/a>\u00a0towards\u00a0Deir Az Zor\u00a0on several fronts in recent weeks, and on Tuesday\u00a0reached the western outskirts of the city after ISIL defences collapsed.<\/p>\n State news agency SANA said on Tuesday that the advancing forces had joined up with fellow soldiers\u00a0at the previously\u00a0besieged government-held air base known as Brigade 137 on the outskirts of Deir Az Zor city.<\/p>\n Ali Mayhub, brigadier general of the Syrian armed forces, said in a statement that “after a series of successful operations, our heroic forces and our allies with the backing of the Russian forces managed to lift the siege on our people in Deir Az Zor city”.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" from aljazeera Syrian government troops and allied forces have broken a three-year siege imposed by\u00a0ISIL\u00a0fighters on a government enclave in\u00a0the eastern city of Deir Az Zor, according to Syria’s state media. Backed by Russian air support, the army and their allies had been\u00a0advancing\u00a0towards\u00a0Deir Az Zor\u00a0on several fronts in recent weeks, and on Tuesday\u00a0reached the western outskirts of the city after… Read more »<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":56,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-654","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/middleeastandnorthafricablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/654","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/middleeastandnorthafricablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/middleeastandnorthafricablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/middleeastandnorthafricablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/56"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/middleeastandnorthafricablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=654"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/middleeastandnorthafricablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/654\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":655,"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/middleeastandnorthafricablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/654\/revisions\/655"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/middleeastandnorthafricablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=654"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/middleeastandnorthafricablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=654"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/middleeastandnorthafricablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=654"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}