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This image provided by Egypt's Supreme Council of Antiquities, shows artifacts which were discovered inside tombs at the Tell al-Deir necropolis, in the Nile Delta town of Damietta, about 125 miles (200 km) north of Cairo, Egypt

The U.S. has started construction of two new military bases in Syria's oil-rich Deir ez-Zor governorate.

A peace corridor on Turkey's Syria border will enable the resettlement of 3 million Syrians from Turkey, Europe and other countries if it is extended to the Deir ez zor-Raqqa line, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan said on Sept. 24.

The U.S.-led coalition against ISIL has delivered vehicles to depots belonging to the YPG in Deir-Ez Zor province in Syria, according to local sources who spoke anonymously because of safety concerns.

Ukraine's intelligence services, the SBU, has named a Moldovan, Radu "Rodion" Donciu, aged 43, as a mercenary who has fought for the pro-Russian separatists in eastern Ukraine, and in Syria, with the Russian-led private company, Wagner.

Four Russian soldiers have died in Syria as a result of a terrorist attack. Two Russian advisers directing the fire of the Syrian artillery have died on the ground, and five more were injured, two of whom died in the hospital, the Russian Defense Ministry reported on Sunday, TASS reports.

One of the three suspected members of the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) detained in the northwestern Turkish province of Sakarya could be the "emir" of Syria's Deir ez-Zor region, state-run Anadolu Agency reported on May 2, just five days after another suspected Deir ez-Zor "emir" was caught in Turkey.

At least 23 civilians from one family were killed in air strikes by the US-backed coalition in Syria, the France press reported, citing the Syrian Human Rights Watch.

The forces of the Syrian regime have progressed even further towards the city of Deir ez Zor, the enclave of government surrounded by the Islamic State group in the eastern part of the country. This was announced today by the Syrian Human Rights Observatory quoted by the agencies.

Islamic State Leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi is still alive and is likely to be hiding in the Euphrates Valley, said Lieutenant General Stephen Townsend who commands coalition forces against the jihadist group in Iraq and Syria.