AFP
Syrian pro-government forces captured the city of Deir al-Zour on Friday
The Syrian military says it has "fully liberated" the eastern border town of Albu Kamal, so-called Islamic State's last urban stronghold in the country.
Commanders said the victory signalled the fall of the terrorist Daesh [IS] organizational project in the region ".
A monitoring group said militants had withdrawn to another part of Deir al-Zour province following negotiations.
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The jihadist group seized large swathes of Syria and neighboring Iraq in 2014, when it proclaimed a "caliphate" and imposed its rule over some 10 million people.
But it has suffered a series of defeats over the past two years, losing Iraq's second city of Mosul this July and its de facto capital of Raqqa in northern Syria last month.
The official San a news agency quoted the Army Command as hailing the recapture of Albu Kamal as a "Syrian Observatory for Human" (19459012)
The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, a UK-based monitoring group, cited its sources as saying that Albu Kamal was retaken by troops and allied militiamen after the last militants in the town withdrew to areas in eastern Deir al-Zour.
Militias had agreed to open a corridor for the jihadists to leave, they added.
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A military media unit run by Lebanon's Hezbollah movement, supporting the Syrian army in the country's six-year civil war, said army engineers were now combing Albu Kamal for bombs and mines.
On Wednesday, Syrian troops linked up with Iraqi forces on the border, giving the Syrian government control of its official official crossing with Iraq since 2012.
Last week, Iraqi forces secured the Iraqi side of the crossing after taking the near city of al-Qaim as part of an operation to clear IS out of its last pocket in Iraq.
