Syrian army ‘recaptures key north eastern city’ from islamic State

The Syrian army said on Monday it had recaptured a major residential quarter in Hasaka from Islamic State insurgents who stormed the strategically located northeastern city last week and drove out thousands of civilians. Syrian state television said in a newsflash the army had now “cleansed” the southern Hasaka district of Nashwa of Islamic State fighters, who hold large tracts of Syria’s east but mainly the more thinly populated countryside.

Martyrs fell … Fire erupted at the (textile) plant and a number of storage tanks.

Syrian Army source

Earlier on Monday, a Syrian army source said Islamic State suicide bombers blew up two trucks in the southeastern district of Ghwyran and a fire erupted at petroleum storage tanks and a textile firm following shelling by the militants. State television quoted the army source as saying Islamic State had targeted a major roundabout and an area around a mosque in Ghwyran, among the districts entered by the insurgents in their bid to seize government-held parts of Hasaka.

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