On 4 October, the Syrian military in Damascus, a pressman, Zheng, said that Government forces had wiped out the “Islamic State” of the extremist organization in the department of Al-Hamra in central Syria on the same day and had made significant progress in military operations. The Syrian military sources told the newsers of the New China Society that Government forces had recovered over 50 villages in the eastern part of the province of Hammar nearly a month. With the removal of the last “Is...