According to Al masdar the SAA have withdrawn from the panorama roundabout after one of waves of armoured truck bombs finally got through and took out their defences . At the same time though they've retaken full control over the Al liliyah and Al Nishwa quarters of the town from IS . Basically a bloody tug of war between them and IS in Hasakah .
Elsewhere though they've driven them out of a number of towns around Palmyra , and are now just 5 km from the city's outskirts . They and Hez also have them pinned in Zabadani , on the Lebanese border . Half the town now under their control . The last big town there the jihadis had control of . Lebanese border territory is well on the way to being finally cleansed .