Deir al-Zour was heavily damaged during the Syrian Civil War. The regime of Bashar al-Assad began cracking down on protests in 2011, rebels gained control in 2012, and the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS) took over in 2014. Government forces regained control in 2017, but clashes continued with Kurdish forces. In 2024 the city was overtaken by forces aligned with Ahmed al-Sharaa, who ousted Assad.
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