Deir al-Zor
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Deir al-Zor (Deir Ezzor), located to the Northeast of the capital Damascus on the shores of the Euphrates River, is the seventh largest city in Syria and the capital of the oil-rich Deir al-Zor Governorate.[1]
Since 2014, the Syrian Arab Army (SAA) has been successfully defending Deir al-Zor against attacks by Islamic State, and in August 2017, it was reported that the US-backed Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), mostly made up of Syrian Kurds, were preparing for a military offensive to prevent the SAA from re-establishing full military control over the oil rich-territory.[2]
In October 2017 Dmitry Kiselyov, deputy director of Russian state TV holding company VGTRK, asserted that Syria's liberation process is underway:
- "Now ISIS is controlling less than 8% of the Syrian territory. Meanwhile, the Americans have pretty much wiped the ISIS capital, Raqqa, off the map.
- "The ruins went to the Kurds. The remaining terrorist fighters were carefully transported to help those who are unsuccessfully defending Deir Ezzor. So cynical."[3]
Related Document
| Title | Type | Publication date | Author(s) | Description |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Document:Washington Wants Syria's Oil | Article | 30 August 2017 | Anna Jaunger | The future of Syria and its geopolitical strategic equation will depend on who controls the oil-rich region of Deir al-Zor. |
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References
- ↑ "Syrian Ministry of Tourism (in Arabic)". Retrieved 10 May 2007.Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css must have content model "Sanitized CSS" for TemplateStyles (current model is "Scribunto").
- ↑ Document:Washington Wants Syria's Oil
- ↑ "US Air Force AIRLIFTS! ISIS Fighters From Raqqa to Fight Russians - Russian TV Report"
