The militants of the terrorist group “Islamic state” (IG, is prohibited in Russia), leaving the Syrian city of Palmyra. On Thursday, March 2, according to the District.
It is noted that the extremist forces had withdrawn from most of the city, mined the houses and roads.
As reports TASS with reference to the newspaper Al-Watan previously reported that Syrian troops from the center of Palmyra are only a kilometer. Fighting with extremists was in the South-Western parts of the city.
On February 27 it became known that the units of Syrian government troops, backed by allied militia forces drove the terrorists of ISIS from the strategic height 939,5 near Palmyra.
The attack at Palmyra began in mid-January and after a pause resumed on 6 February. The city was liberated from the militants in the spring of 2016, but in December they took it back.