DAMASCUS, Sept. 6 (Xinhua) -- Syria's Ministry of Health on Wednesday sent nine tons of medical supplies to the eastern city of Deir al-Zour, just a day after the Syrian army and allied fighters lifted the three-year siege by the Islamic State (IS) group on the city, state news agency SANA reported.
The supplies include ambulances, mobile clinics as well as medication to the city, said SANA.
A day earlier, the Syrian army and allied Iranian-backed forces reached the outskirts of Deir al-Zour, and lifted the siege of a government-held enclave.
The progressing forces broke the siege from the western part of the city through the Brigade 137, where a garrison of forces had been besieged by IS for three years.
About 93,000 civilians were surrounded by IS in the enclave of government loyalists in the city, half of which is controlled by IS.
During the siege, the government and the UN carried out expensive airdrops of food and aid to the besieged people.
Deir al-Zour is the last major stronghold of IS, as the terror-designated group is also losing its de facto capital of Raqqa to the U.S.-backed Syrian Democratic Forces, which has captured more than 60 percent of Raqqa.
