Deir ez-Zor

Syria's government said the U.S.-led military coalition had carried out a deadly air strike on a Syrian army camp, but officials from the U.S-led alliance said the report was false. 

Syria said four coalition jets killed three soldiers and wounded 13 in the eastern Deir al-Zor province on Dec. 6 evening, calling it an act of aggression, the first time it has made such an accusation. 

Four Syrian soldiers were killed and 13 injured when a bombing raid by the US-led coalition hit an army camp in the east of the country, a monitor said on Dec. 7.

Jihadists of the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) edged closer to a strategic airbase in eastern Syria in heavy clashes that left 54 fighters dead, a monitoring group said on Sept.10.

Islamic State militants reached a new low by reportedly beheading two women in Syria, says the UK-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights. The women were executed after accused of ‘witchcraft and sorcery’ along with their husbands in the Deir al-Zor province over the last two days.

Islamic State (IS) captured the UNESCO World Heritage site of Palmyra after gaining control of the town next to the ruins of the ancient city in Syria.

According to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, no artefacts were destroyed so far, the BBC reports.

An Egyptian man has delivered a financial blow to the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL), after reportedly becoming the ?emir? of its alms department before fleeing to Turkey with almost $1 million.

Jihadists have executed 17 men in recent days in areas they control in eastern and northern Syria to avenge a string of assassinations targeting their fighters, a monitor said Jan. 16.
      

An Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) suicide bomber detonated a tank at a Syrian air base in the province of Deir al-Zor, one of the last remaining government strongholds in eastern Syria, jihadist social media and a monitoring group said on Dec. 12.
  

Air strikes by U.S.-led forces in Syria have killed 865 people, including 50 civilians, since the start of the campaign in late September against Islamic State militants, a group monitoring the war said on Nov. 12.
   

Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) has shut all schools in areas it controls in eastern Syria pending a religious revision of the curriculum, residents and a monitoring group said on Nov. 7.