The Syrian regime army and allied forces pushed into the remaining Daesh-held (ISIS) districts of Deir al-Zor city in eastern Syria Tuesday, a Hezbollah military media unit said.
Backed by Russian air power and Iran-backed militias, the Syrian army has been fighting in the city since last month, after breaking an Daesh siege of an enclave there that had lasted three years.
Syrian troops and their allies made gains on Tuesday after "storming districts of Deir al-Zor city to clear them from [Daesh]", said the media unit run by Hezbollah, a key ally of the Damascus government.
The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, a Britain-based war monitoring group, said Daesh militants still controlled nearly five neighborhoods of the city.
Syrian government forces have been fighting to oust Daesh from the eastern oil-rich province of Deir al-Zor which borders Iraq. Deir al-Zor city sits on the western bank of the Euphrates river.
In northern parts of the province on the other side of the river, a U.S.-backed alliance of Kurdish and Arab militias is waging their own separate offensive against Daesh.
Daesh has lost swathes of territory in Syria and Iraq this year, and in Syria have been pushed into a strip of the Euphrates valley and surrounding desert.
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