The Observatory, which says it relies on a network of activists on the ground, said the army and its allies have so far taken 3,000 sq km of territory in the vicinity of Deir al-Zour.
The UN and the Syrian army are carrying expensive airdrops of food and aid to around 100,000 besieged people in the besieged city of Deir al-Zour.
The Russian Defense Ministry said recently the army was close to breaking the IS siege in Deir al-Zour.
The army operations in the sprawling desert have also extended to the eastern countryside of the central Hama province, where IS holds key areas there.
The army on Friday drove out the IS militants from their key stronghold of Uqayribat town in the eastern countryside of Hama province in central Syria.
The town was a main IS stronghold and a launching pad for the IS attacks against the army in Hama countryside.
The IS control over the town had also posed a threat to the road between Hama and the northern province of Aleppo.
So now the army is close to declaring the victory against IS in the eastern countryside of Hama, the eastern Homs countryside in the desert, after laying a siege on IS-held areas, making it a matter of time before they completely surrender or get killed.
That will leave the efforts focused on Deir al-Zour.
In Raqqa, the self-declared capital of IS, the U.S.-backed Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), an alliance of Kurdish, Arab and Assyrian fighters led by the Kurdish YPG, is also advancing against IS in the city of Raqqa.
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