Syria says IS group killed 300 in attacks in country's east

The IS attack on the neighbourhood was carried out early Saturday, with several suicide bombers blowing themselves up at government forces' positions, the TV report said.

The terrorist militia IS has arranged a massacre in Syria - the jihadists killed 85 civilians near the town of Deir al-sor included.

A Russian air force cargo plane drops off humanitarian aid in the region around Deir al-Zor. "And Prime Minister Al-Halqi stressed that these defeated groups carry out these massacres to cover up their repeated defeats, and that their days on Syrian territory are numbered".

The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, an opposition monitoring body, said people were taken from areas in the north-west of the city.

Isis casualties have been reported as 42 by the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights.

The state-run SANA news agency said that most of those killed in day-long attacks on Deir el-Zour Saturday were elderly people, women and children.

Reuters was unable to independently verify these reports.

The village was seized by IS during the attack, and the captives reportedly taken to nearby areas ofSyria also under the group's control.

The area links Islamic State's "capital" in the Syrian city of Raqqa with territory controlled by the militant group in neighbouring Iraq, to the east.

Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (Isil) controls most of Deir Ezzor province and much of the capital with the same name, while the government controls several districts in the northern part of the city and the adjacent military airport.

More than 250,000 people have been killed and millions displaced after nearly five years of conflict inSyria.

A auto bomb explosion was followed by a ground attack, Syria's Local Coordination Committees (LCC) said.

The fighting in Al-Bab is just one of up to seven battlefronts on which regime forces are seeking to advance in Aleppo province, capitalising on a Russian air campaign that began on September 30.

In recent months, IS has come under pressure particularly from Kurdish fighters backed by United States strikes, and more recently regime forces supported by Russian air raids.

The Syrian government has dispatched military reinforcements in an attempt to regain control of al-Baghaliya from hardliners, activists said.

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