BEIRUT: The fighters Islamic State (IS) is now in full control of all main oil and gas fields in Syria's Deir Ezzor province, bordering Iraq, a monitoring group said.
IS declared an "Islamic caliphate" in areas it controls in Syria and Iraq, where it is spearheading an offensive against government troops.
"IS took control of the Tanak oil field, located in the Sheiytat desert area in the east of Deir Ezzor province," late Thursday after rival rebels withdrew, said he Syrian Observatory for Human Rights.
Earlier that day the fighters seized the major Al-Omar oil field.
But they have still not captured the tiny Al-Ward oil field which produces barely 200 barrels of oil per day and is in the hands of a local tribe, said Observatory director Rami Abdel Rahman.
Islamic State seized Tanak and Al-Omar after rival fighters from Al-Qaeda's Al-Nusra Front and other Syrian rebel groups withdrew from those areas, said the Observatory.
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