ISIL fighters have withdrawn from much of the Syrian oasis city of Palmyra as government forces slowly enter its ravaged ancient ruins because of land mines and suicide bombers, a war monitor said on Thursday.
Russian-backed Syrian troops pushed into a western neighbourhood of the city late on Wednesday after fierce clashes with the ISIL fighters.
By Thursday morning, Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant cadres had withdrawn to residential neighbourhoods in the east of the city, the UK-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said.
“IS withdrew from most of Palmyra after laying mines across the city. There are
source http://www.omnipopmag.com/2017/03/02/isil-pulls-back-from-syria039s-palmyra/
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