Deir Ez Zor

Al Assad meets with Putin in Sochi, Russia on Tuesday November 21, 2017 [PPIO]
Russian President Vladimir Putin will call his American counterpart after Syrian President Bashar Al Assad concludes his trip to the Russian port city of Sochi.
“Already a talk is planned with the emir of Qatar and tomorrow—with the President of the U.S. Donald Trump, while afterwards (I will speak) with leaders from countries in the region,” a statement from the Kremlin quoted Putin on Tuesday.

The Syrian army said its soldiers have surrounded Islamic State elements in Deir e Zor along the eastern border with Iraq [Xinhua]
The Russian military says that the Islamic State in Syria has been nearly routed even as the Syrian Arab Army announces that it has retaken yet more territory from the extremist group.
On Tuesday the Syrian Army’s 4th Mechanized Division said it had liberated east Hama city and destroyed the Islamic State’s largest training facility there.

21st Century Wire says…
The net is closing in on ISIS at the key strategic point on Deir-ez-Zor. When ISIS is defeated there, it will be nearly trapped in its stronghold of Raqqa.
Aside from bringing an end to the 4 year ordeal and horrendous suffering of its residents, the liberation of Deir ez-Zor would effectively spell the beginning of the end for ISIS in Syria, says Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu.

A US Navy F/A-18 launches from its carrier during Operation Inherent Resolve (Photo: Alex King/US Navy. Source: Wikicommons)
In the past week, the situation in Syria has not only continued to become increasingly dangerous, but thanks to the US and its allies on the ground in Syria, the threat of all-out war is actually accelerating towards us.