New strategic and symbolic breakthrough for Daesh Syria. The Islamic State Group (EI) claimed responsibility Thursday, May 21 in a statement released on Twitter taking all of the Syrian city of Palmyra after Wednesday routed government troops who defended it.
L Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (OSDH), which documents the Syrian conflict, said in turn that jihadist fighters also entered the most famous archaeological site of Syria, located in the southwest of the modern city of Palmyra. The director of the OSDH, Rami Abdoulrahman, however accurate they were not informed at this time of destruction of the sort to which the fundamentalists have delivered in several Iraqi cities of antiquity.
The black flag of IE on multiple sites
The jihadists have conquered including the military airport, which served as a rear base for last forces of Bashar al Assad still resistant to EI in the province of Dair az Zour along the Iraqi border. They also planted their black flag over the headquarters of the intelligence services and the prison in the city, the largest and one of the most notorious of the Middle East.
In their “collapse”, the forces of President Bashar al-Assad, the Syrian state media acknowledged Wednesday night retreat towards Damascus, “left many dead behind” says The statement said that the bodies covering the main square of the city. According to OSDH, fighting around Palmyra left at least a hundred deaths in the ranks of pro-government forces since Wednesday.
A strategic area but uninhabited
Palmyra, called Tadmur in Arabic and located about 240 km northeast of Damascus, is the first major city to the Syrian regime taken by EI, which had hitherto concentrated its attacks on the rebel movements, there including Islamists. By seizing the town and the vast desert region that surrounds it, the jihadist organization can claim control of about half of Syria.
Most of these areas are however almost uninhabited, the population concentrating in Damascus and along the Lebanese border and the Mediterranean coast, in a “useful Syria” that the Syrian army has made its priority.
(With Reuters)
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