Activists: ISIS Kills at Least 75 in Attacks in Eastern Syria

ISIS extremists on Saturday killed dozens of people, most of them pro-government militiamen, in wide-scale attacks on government-held areas of the eastern city of Deir el-Zour, opposition activists said
Activists: ISIS Kills at Least 75 in Attacks in Eastern Syria
An ISIS member in a propaganda shot released by the terrorist group.
The Associated Press
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BEIRUT—ISIS extremists on Saturday killed dozens of people, most of them pro-government militiamen, in wide-scale attacks on government-held areas of the eastern city of Deir el-Zour, opposition activists said.

The opposition activist group the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said at least 75 soldiers and pro-government militiamen were killed in the attacks which saw the group make significant advances in the contested city. It said at least 60 of them were shot dead by the extremists.

The ISIS group controls most of the province and provincial capital with the same name, while the government controls a few neighborhoods in the northern part of the city and the adjacent military airport. Most of the casualties took place in the area of Baghaliyeh near the northern tip of the city.