A girl walks past debris of damaged buildings in Bizaah, northeast of Aleppo's countryside, Syria September 16, 2017. REUTERS/Khalil Ashawi
BEIRUT (Reuters) - Syrian troops seized a suburb of the eastern city of Deir al-Zor on Sunday, tightening the noose around Islamic State, a Syrian military source said.
The army pushed into the city this month with the help of Russian air power and Iran-backed militias, breaking an Islamic State siege of an enclave there that had lasted three years.
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