Syrian army advances in southwest against ISIS militants
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The Syrian army has captured some areas held by Islamic State fighters in a region of the southwest near the border with the Israeli Golan Heights, state media said on Tuesday.
Engineering units were sweeping the areas taken in the Yarmouk basin region for mines and booby traps, it reported, citing a military source.
Recapturing the Yarmouk basin from Islamic State would bring all of southwest Syria, long a crucible of the uprising against President Bashar Assad, back under his control along with the entire frontiers with Israel and Jordan.
