Syrian regime forces took back several parts of a city of Hasakeh from the Islamic State group on Monday, but heavy clashes continued, a monitor said. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, a Britain-based monitor, said regime forces had seized parts of Al-Nashwa district in southern Hasakeh, which ISIS fighters had entered on last Thursday. But it said clashes were continuing around the neighbourhood with “shelling by both sides and air raids on the area where fighting is taking place”.