Syrian army advances on IS-held water supplies for Aleppo: monitor, military source

The Syrian army has advanced to the outskirts of an Islamic State-held village in northern Syria, where a key water pumping facility for Aleppo city is located, a monitor said on Tuesday.

The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, a Britain-based war monitoring group, said the army and allied forces made gains east of Aleppo, moving closer to the al-Khafsa area.

A Syrian military source confirmed the advance.

(Reporting by Tom Perry and Ellen Francis; editing by John Stonestreet)

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