(Zaman Al Wasl)- At least 29 regime troops from Tartus province have been killed in two weeks by the Islamic State in eastern Syria, pro-regime news feeds said.
Since May, the regime forces have been battling ISIS at the gates of Deir Ezzor city and the Syrian Badia, making rapid advances in the past weeks.
The Alawites-dominated coastal region was, and still, the main manpower supply for Bashar al-Assad's regime. The total death toll of the regime troops exceeded 200,000, activists said.
The mourning posters have been sweeping the streets and pro-regime social media of coastal province.
Residents of Tartus, the regime's powerful militant supplier, say no men have been left in the city. Funeral everywhere and everyday. The daily bloodshed pushed supporters of Bashar al-Assad to demand a peace solution ending the 7-year-old war.
Tartus suffered decades of negligence and constant resentment in comparison with the next-door city of Latakia where services and tourism and fortune.
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