When attacking the Syrian Dair-Ez-Zor, the IS militants took 400 hostages

During the Saturday attack on the Strategic Syrian city of Dair-Ez-Zor, militants of the Islamic State terrorist group (IG, Daish ) took hostage in hostage and committed a massive murder of local residents. This is reported on Sunday by AFP.

The attack on the strategic city, dividing the "possessions" of IG in Syria and Iraq, managed to recapture the government forces. According to Reuters, at least 250 people became victims of attacks, including army fighters and members of their families. AFP reports 335 victims. Sources of the Syrian Council for Human Rights Supervision of Human Rights argued that terrorists arranged a real massacre among civilians.

TASS, citing AFP, reports that the terrorists captured hundreds of people in suburban quarters, as well as in the townships closest to the city. Among the captured are women and children. The militants are reported that the hostages to the territory of the areas controlled by them.

The city of Deir ez-Zor is one of the key in confrontation with terrorists, since it is essentially the only obstacle that interferes with the direct message of the formal capital of the Islamic State in the city of Rakka with territories controlled by the militants in Iraq. On the positions of the Islamic State around the city, Russian aviation regularly strikes, as well as the coalition forces headed by the United States.

Terrorists have been besieging Deir ez-Zor for more than a year, and all this time more than 200 thousand local residents have been living in critical conditions: they have no water, no food, nor the necessary drugs.

Sources in the Syrian government note that IS militants conduct attacks on this strategic city almost daily, but their output has become one of the most fierce.