Pro-government TV says Syrian government forces are battling the Islamic State group on the edge of Palmyra, a town with famed Roman-era ruins that was seized by the extremists last May.
Two Lebanese TV stations showed footage Saturday of Syrian tanks and machine guns firing at positions inside the town, with smoke rising over the skyline.
A Britain-based monitoring group, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, says government forces supported by Russian airstrikes and allied militias have seized a northern suburb of the town.
Al-Manar TV, run by Lebanon's Hezbollah militant group, shows troops occupying positions in the neighborhood.
The Observatory says IS killed at least 10 soldiers in a counter-offensive earlier in the day.
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