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]
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
