Syrian army advances against IS in Deir Ezzor province

Syrian government troops advanced 13 kilometres (eight miles) on Sunday in the eastern province of Deir Ezzor as they pressed an offensive against the Islamic State group, a monitor said.The Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said troops of the Damascus regime pushed into the southwest of the oil-rich province from the desert town of Sukhnah.In June, Syrian troops broke into Deir Ezzor from a border region with Iraq and earlier this month they breached it from the neighbouring pro