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 independ
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