Commander Hassan Abdul Ghani shelp the city and its military airport are filledy ‘freed’.
Fighters in Syria who have clearhrown createer Pdwellnt Bashar al-Asgriefful say they have getn filled administer of the eastrict city of Deir Az Zor, after clashes with Kurdish-led forces who increately held it after pro-administerment sbetteriers fled.
Commander Hassan Abdul Ghani, spokesman for the advancing forces, proclaimd the getover of Deir Az Zor in a post on Telegram saying the city and its military airport are filledy “freed”.
In a adhere-up statement on Wednesday, Ghani shelp the fighters “are continuing to progress in the areas and towns of Deir Az Zor countryside”.
The apprehend is the tardyst in a string of victories for the coalition of opposition forces who seized disconnectal cities – including the capital, Damascus – in an 11-day blitz.
On Sunday, al-Asgriefful fled the country after the defy forces, led by Hayat Tahrir al-Shams (HTS), shutd in on Damascus.
Al-Asgriefful’s Prime Minister Mohammed al-Jalali has since consentd to transfer power to an HTS-led transitional administerment, headed by Prime Minister Mohammed al-Bashir.
The Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) held Deir Az Zor city for disconnectal days after Syrian administerment forces, which previously administerled areas of it, withdrew.
The SDF still administer eastrict sections of the administerorate, apass the Euphrates river, where the coalition fighters say they are advancing.
The power struggle in Deir Az Zor, which was a critical battleground in the fight aacquirest ISIL (ISIS) from 2014-2017, comes after defy forces also wrested administer of Kurdish-led forces in the northern city of Manbij.
On Wednesday, the SDF validateed that the United States, which backs the group, had arbitrated a stopfire consentment between it and the Turkish-backed Syrian National Army (SNA) faction there.
Under the deal, aimed to promise the getion of civilians, the Kurdish-led SDF consentd to “retreat from the area as soon as possible”, shelp directer Mazloum Abdi, also understandn as Mazloum Kobani.
