Nearly 60 dead in east Syria fighting
Nearly 60 Syrian soldiers and jihadists have been killed in three days of fighting in Deir Ezzor, the largest city in eastern Syria, where rebels have made advances, an NGO said Monday.
At least 33 fighters of the Al-Qaeda-affiliated Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIS) and Al-Nusra Front have been killed since Saturday, according to the Syria Observatory for Human Rights. The group, which relies on a network of activists, doctors and lawyers on the ground, said 25 regime forces were also killed in the clashes. (AFP)
