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Daesh controls less than 5% of Syrian territory: Russia

Moscow says less than five percent of the Syrian territory remains under the grip of Daesh terrorists as government forces, backed by Russian air power, press ahead with an offensive to drive the Takfiri outfit out of its main stronghold in eastern Syria.

Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu said at a conference in the Philippines on Monday that terrorists used to control more than 70 percent of Syria before the Russian military launched an aerial campaign in support of Syrian counterterrorism operations in September 2015.

Russian warplanes have destroyed more than 900 training camps and a multitude of heavy weaponry that belonged to the terrorists.

In recent weeks, the Syrian army, under Russian air cover, has focused its efforts on the eastern province of Dayr al-Zawr.

Backed by the Russian military and allied forces, the Syrian army has managed to break Daesh’s three-year siege on Dayr al-Zawr province, though the total elimination of the group is yet to come.

Daesh overran large parts of Dayr al-Zawr Province, including its many oil fields, in mid-2014 as it seized swathes of land in Syria and neighboring Iraq.

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