June 30, 2017 08:07 pm | Updated 08:19 pm IST - BEIRUT:
In this October 16, 2016 file photo, Rebel fighters near Islamic State calligraphy and drawings on a wall in Dabiq town, northern Aleppo countryside, Syria.
Islamic State militants have withdrawn from the last territory they held in Aleppo province after the Syrian army retook the Ithriya-Rasafa road and areas east of Khanaser, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights reported on Friday.
A military media unit run by the army's ally Hezbollah said soldiers had captured the Ithriya-Rasafa road and besieged Islamic State's positions east of Khanaser. It did not say the jihadist group had abandoned those positions.
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