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Congratulations for your first article.
I must say there is an error.
The city is in the NW, not NE as you say.
Related to this, I am a little puzzled by your statements “they [IS] bypassed the city”. Deir-ez-zour is on the opposite side from the direction of the attack.
well geographically you are right. but I mean the airport with the adjusted military base to the north. — and by bypassing I mean that most other groups tried it through the city while the IS came from the southern villages.
Bypassed refers to the fact that any previous major advance originated from the part of the city on the southern bank of the river under ISIS control .