DAMASCUS, March 29 (Xinhua) -- The Syrian army on Wednesday captured the town of Deir Hafer, a major stronghold for the Islamic State (IS) group in the eastern countryside of Aleppo province in northern Syria, state news agency SANA reported.
Capturing Deir Hafer comes a week after the Syrian army laid a siege on that town as part of a major military campaign against IS positions in eastern Aleppo countryside.
SANA said the Syrian army captured 27 towns and villages around Deir Hafer and secured the 24 km of the highway connecting Aleppo with Raqqa province, the de facto capital of IS.
The Syrian army is currently moving toward capturing the town of Maskaneh, the last IS-held town in the eastern countryside of Aleppo.
Capturing Deir Hafer and moving toward Maskaneh will put the Syrian army on the road toward Raqqa, where the U.S. forces and allied Kurdish-led fighters of the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) are fighting against IS in the countryside of that province amid reports that a full-scale military offensive by the U.S. and the SDF on Raqqa city will be launched earlier next month.
The SDF spokesman, Talal Silo, said recently that the SDF has no problem cooperating with the Syrian army in the battle on Raqqa, but the prospect of such cooperation is still murky as the Syrian government deems the U.S. military intervention as illegal and considered it as an aggression as Washington stepped in without coordination with the administration of President Bashar al-Assad.
2017届高考英语一轮总复习精选完形填空常考题型(三)
2017届高考英语一轮总复习精选书面表达常考题型(二)
2017届高考英语一轮总复习精选单元练习人教版选修7《Unit 5 Travelling abroad》
2017届高考英语一轮总复习精选专题强化训练资料(二)
2017届高考英语一轮总复习精选单元练习人教版选修6《Unit 3 A healthy life》
2017届高考英语一轮总复习精选单元练习人教版选修6《Unit 4 Global warming》
2017届高考英语二轮复习热点限时训练:短文改错系列5
2017届高考英语一轮总复习精选单元练习人教版必修4《Unit 4 Body language》
2017届高考英语一轮总复习精选单元练习人教版必修3《Unit 1 Festivals around the world》
2017届高考英语二轮复习热点限时训练:短文改错系列3
2017届高考英语一轮总复习精选单元练习人教版必修2《Unit 5 Music》
2017届高考英语一轮总复习精选单元练习人教版选修8《Unit 1 A land of diversity》
2017届高考英语一轮总复习精选完形填空常考题型(二)
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2017届高考英语一轮总复习精选单元练习人教版必修4《Unit 3 A taste of English humour》
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2017届高考英语一轮总复习精选书面表达常考题型(一)
2017届高考英语一轮总复习精选单元练习人教版必修3《Unit 3 The Million Pound Bank Note》
2017届高考英语一轮总复习精选单元练习人教版必修3《Unit 2 Healthy eating》
2017届高考英语一轮总复习精选单元练习人教版必修2《Unit 1 Cultural relics》
2017届高考英语一轮总复习精选完形填空常考题型(一)
2017届高考英语一轮总复习精选单元练习人教版必修5《Unit 5 First aid》
2017届高考英语一轮总复习精选短文改错常考题型(二)
2017届高考英语一轮总复习精选单元练习人教版必修4《Unit 1 Women of achievement》
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2017届高考英语一轮总复习精选单元练习人教版必修1《Unit 4 Earthquakes》
2017届高考英语二轮复习热点限时训练:短文改错系列8
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